Oireachtas committee to discuss prostitution legislation

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.

Various groups aligned to the Turn off the Red Light (TORL) campaign will make oral submissions to the TDs during 12 submissions to be heard today.

Before the summer, the Department of Justice prepared a discussion document which set a range of options from full criminalisation of all prostitution to legalisation of the adult sex trade.