Academics and sex workers have hit out at the Turn Off the Red Light campaign aimed at criminalising the buying of sex, with one published paper claiming the campaign “silences other perspectives on prostitution”.

Chambers Ireland, which represents businesses across the country, has joined the campaign to bring in laws to end the exploitation, abuse and trafficking of women and girls by criminalising the buying of sex.

Anti-prostitution advocates will today tell the Oireachtas Justice Committee why they want the buyers of sex to be targeted by new laws aimed at ending the exploitation, abuse, and trafficking of women and children in this country.