Ms Jacqueline Healy:

The National Women's Council of Ireland has not carried out research on this point. The Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women, which we convene, carried out research on this a few years ago. More work needs to be done, particularly in light of the fact that we have become more technologically advanced with the Internet and the easy availability of pornography on mobile telephones. We have always made the link between pornography and its fuelling of different forms of violence against women, including prostitution.