Victims of trafficking lack legal protection

Irish law offers few protections to victims of trafficking from Ireland or the EU, a solicitor with the Irish Refugee Council has warned.

Stephen Collins said that current legislation provides protections for victims of trafficking found here who are not citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA), but said existing laws recognise that people can be trafficked within their own country.

Mr Collins comments came following the arrests of six people after a man alleged he was being falsely imprisoned at a house in Castletown, Kilpatrick, near Navan, Co Meath.