Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Mr. Daniel McCartney:

There is a perception that people who engage in sex work are stuck in that situation, but I do not necessarily think the data we have show that, but they might show that men who had been paid for sex in the past 12 months said this had occurred only once or twice. They are doing a lot of other things; they are not necessarily stuck in sex work and looking to exit it.