Ms Ann Murphy:

Ms Woods spoke of how it is not one common approach. In some cases, it is in private correspondence when someone applies to see a room. In other cases it is a subletting arrangement where a person who was renting a room from their own landlord makes an arrangement with somebody else to enter into a sex-for-rent arrangement. It is not always the landlord that is making the arrangement.

As I mentioned, there are often advertisements on websites but in many cases it is when private correspondence is entered into. There might be a situation where someone has seen a room advertised as normal on a classified website or Facebook group and it is after that. We have one case in Waterford where a woman made an arrangement to move and it was only after she got there, after moving in on the very first night that she was approached and offered a sex-for-rent arrangement. She left in panic with her boyfriend who was with her. When she went to work the next day the person who had required the sex-for-rent arrangement from her followed her to work. He knew where she worked and he turned up at her workplace at lunchtime the following day. There is a wide range of ways in which these arrangements are being offered to people.