Council to vote on banning buying sex

Cork City Council is to vote on a motion calling for the criminalisation of the buying of sex which, if passed, would make it the latest local authority to back the measure.

Catherine Clancy (Lab) will introduce the motion at a council meeting tonight on behalf of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork, Cois Tine, and Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre.

The organisations are part of the national Turn Off the Red Light campaign, which is calling for the buying of sex to be illegal.