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. Fergus Healy:

The difficulty with a lot of these websites is that they are hosted outside EU jurisdictions, mainly in America and, particularly, Florida. They are difficult to intercept. Global operations have been put in place by Interpol to tackle these and we work closely with the agency on them.