US says Ireland failed to tackle human trafficking
The US State Departmentās Trafficking in Personās report for 2009 stated that the Irish Government does not fully comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
Ranking Ireland alongside Portugal and Greece as the only three EU āTier 2ā countries, the report said Ireland was āa destination and, to a lesser extent, transit country for women, men and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labourā. The finding will come as an embarrassment to the Government, which has recently announced a new anti-human trafficking plan and which has introduced regulations to combat human trafficking in the past year.