Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of the prison sentences handed down in respect of sex trafficking prosecutions since 2008. [15791/14]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been charged and sentenced for organising and profiting from sex trafficking here since 2008. [15870/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 169 and 176 together.

There have been twenty four persons charged and sentenced to imprisonment for sex trafficking related offences since 2008. It is not possible for An Garda Síochána to provide information relative to the “average length of the prison sentences handed down in respect of sex trafficking prosecutions since 2008.”

The sentences in respect of persons charged with sex trafficking offences vary in length and include:

- Custodial sentences

- Suspended sentences

- Post release supervision,

- Subject to the sex offenders register,

- Deportation

- Entry into a Bond of Good Behaviour.