Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I wish to deal with this amendment because I am perplexed. Perhaps the Deputies proposing it or the Tánaiste might provide clarity. It proposes to delete all of the new provisions, including that relating to paragraph (a) of the 1993 Act, from line 3 onwards to the following page. I fail to see how that would make the lives of sex workers safer or decriminalise them, given that section 25 of the Bill deletes from that Act solicitation by a prostitute - a person "offers his or her services as a prostitute to another person" - from the offence of soliciting for the purposes of prostitution.

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