Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality since the enactment of the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013, the number of persons have been prosecuted for trafficking children and adults for the purposes of sexual exploitation and soliciting or importuning for the purposes of prostitution of the trafficked person in each of the years 2009 to 2014 inclusive. [1944/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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On 1 January 2009, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of my Department initiated a data collection strategy for the purpose of gaining a more in-depth understanding of the nature and extent of human trafficking in Ireland. To date, annual reports for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 have been published and are available from Ireland’s dedicated anti-human trafficking website,www.blueblindfold.gov.ie, in addition to my Department’s website.

For the purposes of clarity, the information sought, as outlined in these annual reports, is below. As the report for 2013 is to be published soon, the figures for 2013 are preliminary as are the figures for 2014.

The specific information sought by the Deputy is set out in the table beneath.