Mr. Brian Killoran:

I will make some closing remarks to re-centre the conversation around the understanding that we are, as Ms Henderson said, in many of these instances supporting people who are themselves victims of crime. We have the opportunity through the NRM and the Bill essentially to flesh out and describe some of the supports we can provide to some of the most marginalised groups we have ever encountered as an organisation over the years. That is also the shared experience of many of the other groups here today. We want to bring clarity and transparency to those who are participating in the revised version of the NRM and those who operate the channels that will come into this in regard to referrals, and those who are potential identifiers of victims of trafficking, to increase our identification rates particularly in regard to children as has also been mentioned. The clarity for survivors is essential as well because we are on a day-to-day basis holding the hand of somebody on the journey from being a victim to being a survivor. To do that we need to be able to describe what the next few steps will look like and what rights and entitlements are going to inform them. We seldom get these opportunities to revise this kind of legislation and we wish to populate it as far as possible with a very clear system of rights and entitlements that we can build around it in regard to integration supports that ultimately stem from immigration status or identification within the system. I refer to safeguards that were mentioned about protection from deportation. In its submission IHREC mentioned the good point about protection from the Dublin regulation which means potentially being moved out of the country to another EU country, and protection from prosecution as well. All of these things build our supports around a very niche area within the experience of exploitation in the area of trafficking and sexual exploitation in Ireland. All of our organisations have extensive experience and resources that we repeatedly make available to the committee as required. We appreciate the opportunity to do so.