Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022: Discussion
Ms Edel McGinley:
Just a final comment if that is okay. We would like to see those areas addressed. I am delighted to hear the appeal mechanism, whatever that looks like, will be included now. We are worried that we are not hearing that the rights and entitlements will be included. That needs to be looked at. We need more clarity around how the system will actually work. We would support the IHREC to have as much included in primary legislation as possible, although secondary legislation can be an option for some issues. I am not clear about what is being said about the data. We would definitely resist anything compelling us to share our data with anybody. It would have to be voluntary. I am not really sure what that comment is around the data. I would not like us to think that everyone who works in sex work has been trafficked, either. We need to be careful around that. It might be useful to elicit some views from the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland on some of this as well.
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