David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

You are describing very vulnerable people. When we were in Sweden we were told sex traffickers target the kind of people you describe. In eastern Europe, for example, traffickers target vulnerable people - girls in the main - entice, induce and kidnap them and bring them to more wealthy parts of Europe to work in the sex industry. You have described very vulnerable people. Some young women may have intellectual disabilities. The argument made to us in Sweden was that by reducing the demand for prostitution one reduces the opportunities for trafficking gangs.

One of the issues we face is that if we somehow or another say to men that there is a risk that their names will appear in the newspaper and they will be shamed by this, many of them could decide not to take that risk and will not go there. The demand would reduce and the pull factor decrease. Will Dr. McGarry comment on that argument?