Ms Nora Owen:

Chief Superintendent Louise Synnott will outline the work on trafficking. As I said in my submission, 5,000 gardaí have been trained in dealing with this issue. We are now beginning to see the effect on convictions. Senator Craughwell asked if there was any evidence that people being brought over as migrants were then being moved into prostitution. It is quite clear from the most recent court case that this is exactly what has happened. Girls thought they were coming over to get jobs and then were immediately put into prostitution in Ireland.