Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If nearly 4,000 women and girls in Ireland are impacted by this, the figure for the European Union in total is obviously many multiples of that. We would certainly like to see a consistency of approach in the law and prosecutions in this area. Perhaps I could come back to the Deputy with country-by-country details of the state of legislation in this area.

Perhaps we could do some more work to raise the profile of the issue in countries that have yet to put legislation in place that is similar to ours.

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