Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to argue with Assistant Commissioner Leahy about the issue. If he is interested, I would like to send him some material to read and we can have a debate by email.

Deputy Clare Daly and I opposed legislation to criminalise the purchase of sex introduced. The Act has been in place for more than a year now. It is now a crime on the part of the purchaser rather than the sex worker. We work closely with sex workers and they have already told us they are less safe as a result of the legislation. That is not the fault of An Garda Síochána but the fault of the Oireachtas. Has the legislation created much work for An Garda Síochána?