Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This morning Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy and I met Dr. Myria Vassiliadou, the EU anti-trafficking co-ordinator. Her job is to promote ways in which EU member states can target trafficking, not just for prostitution but to deal with the problem in general. Ireland has notified its compliance with EU anti-trafficking laws, but we await her scrutiny on how well we are doing.

In June 2013 the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality submitted a report to the Minister for Justice and Equality on prostitution. There was unanimous support for criminalising the user. Canada has joined the list of countries taking steps to criminalise users of prostitutes.