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. Paul Maguire:

We discovered one interesting thing in the course of our research. Deputy Cororan Kennedy asked about the age profile of individuals who were using the women for services. I was rather surprised on a personal level by the large percentage of what I would consider to be younger people using the services. It was quite amazing. We saw this where we filmed outside apartments in which women were working and with the telephone calls that our researcher received as well. I believe there was rather a high percentage of younger people, that is people aged 30 years or less, who were using the services.