Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views that under the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008, owing to the broad definition of "trafficking" in the Act, labour exploitation, including forced labour, can be prosecuted as an offence without the requirement that the victim had been trafficked across a national border into Ireland; if there is other legislation which criminalises forced labour; and his plans to address this matter in forthcoming legislation. [43167/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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A legal opinion on the issue of forced labour was presented to a roundtable seminar hosted by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland which, in short, states that forced labour is criminalised by the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008. The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of my Department wrote to the Attorney General to seek his opinion on this issue. We are awaiting receipt of the advice.