Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I wish to start by commending Ruhama, an organisation that deals with women who are involved in prostitution, and congratulate it for its excellent work. It dealt last year with 305 women from 36 countries who have been affected by prostitution. Of those 305 women, 83 were trafficked into Ireland. It is the lowest form of reprehensibility to see women in this country treated in this way. Ruhama has called for us to change the law urgently, to criminalise the purchase of sex -----