Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed)

2:55 pm

Mr. Paul Maguire:

No, we did not do a calculation on that. Anecdotally, most of the people we spoke to were talking about seeing six clients on a slow day and 12 to 15 on a busy day. We set up a researcher with a profile on the website. Over five days, she received 350 calls, all of whom wanted to meet her. That is 70 calls a day. We pretended we were moving the researcher from one location to another. When the profile was updated to reflect the new location, we received a massive number of calls in minutes.