Professor Michael Healy:

Our project was very small, time bound and limited in terms of personnel. I must publicly recognise the generosity of a number of State bodies, including the Garda and the Department of Justice, as well as the PSNI and the North's Department of Justice, that contributed. There is a willingness to provide some resources for this kind of work, but there is not as much available expertise on the ground to conduct the work in a more thorough fashion. As Professor Breen mentioned, we believe there is a substantial additional body of data that could be mined for this purpose.

By way of a closing remark, I would just say that whatever we do, we need to build trust among this exploited community who are victims of slavery really in many respects. Whatever provisions we build into the Bill and the legislation, we should make sure that trust is conveyed through that and also that mistakes are avoided so that we do not introduce barriers that would make the situation worse for the future.