Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed)
2:25 pm
Mr. Paul Maguire:
There are markers one can monitor. We spent 24 hours a day seven days a week for almost one year monitoring the website and there are certain markers by which one can identify certain individuals who have certain characteristics in profiles and it is then one gets to recognise the fact that a profile is associated with others. Delving into the figures, one can see that individual profiles actually belong to one person and can establish that three profiles belong to one person and discover similarities in the different operations. One then knows there are women who might have multiple profiles, but there is more than one woman involved in this operation. One then monitors movements around the country and where a profile comes up. It is quite complicated, but one can drill to get down to the information