Trafficking in human beings is a new and serious form of international criminal activity which we are now experiencing here. I recently had conversations with the Garda Commission on the steps we must take to face this down. I regret that there is clear evidence that people resident in Ireland of eastern European extraction are heavily involved in this business and succeeding to some extent in normalising their activities through lap dancing and other fronts for plain old fashioned prostitution and enslavement of women in what is called "the sex trade". Where those phenomena appear, it is sometimes tempting for the media to try to say, "How liberal we are, we have lap dancing clubs here and there." Where they are fronts for prostitution, which they are, we should remember that prostitution is the thin end of the organised crime wedge. There is not such a thing here and there is never likely to be a significant sex trade which is not dominated by organised crime. I regard this matter as being very serious.