Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion (Resumed)
3:05 pm
Mr. Fergus Healy:
Any sort of education, in whatever form it is presented, can be of assistance from a preventative point of view. The attraction for many people is that they may be living in a country or economy where the rate of pay or earnings is low. Then they come to an economy where the earnings are greater such that they can earn more in one day than in one week or two weeks in the jurisdiction where they came from. The attraction is great from that perspective. How do we educate people in this area? It might require a pan-European response to really deal with the problem at grass roots level.