Rape Crisis Network adviser says sex for rent issue needs 'expert attention'

Caroline Counihan, a legal policy adviser with the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland, said: 'Abuse tends to hone in wherever there is any type of a vulnerability and that is abuse of power as much as of the person.'

“Proper and expert attention” needs to be used by the Government to establish how to tackle landlords pursuing tenants for sexual favours in return for accommodation.

That is according to Caroline Counihan, a legal policy adviser with the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland, following Monday’s report in the Irish Examiner with women who were offered accommodation for low or no rent in return for sex or bed sharing with the landlord.