Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)

In that minute, I wish to draw attention to what is appearing on local media. A more localised Escort Ireland page states:

Irish Escorts: Galway coming soon touring escorts. Touring escort girls due to arrive in Ireland within the next three days! ... Arriving in Galway on Friday 20 November 2009. Sorry, we currently have no escort arriving in Galway on this date.

They may be arriving on Saturday 21. Similarly, I wish to draw attention to the advertisement on the Callouts Galway website today. It states:

Callouts Galway is a luxury escort agency based in Galway city in the west of Ireland. We provide upper class gentleman in Galway and all over Ireland, a variety of escorts to meet their greatest desires, and fulfil their wildest fantasies. Callouts Galway offers both incall and outcall services in Galway, Ireland but as our escort agency name suggests we specialise in outcall services in county Galway. Our incall service is located in Galway city centre and is in a luxury and discrete [sic] apartment with a great choice of escorts and secure car parking. All of the girls who work for the callouts Galway agency have been chosen for their beauty, intelligence and [fantasy].

While this may sound funny, if a media organ of any kind can push this out in public, the Government and the Minister is failing. This would be an easy way to knock the terrible disgrace of making it available. I ask the Minister of State and the Garda to move quickly on an easy way to respond to this problem.

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