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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 08, 2014

MOTION NO. 1

MOTION: Councillor F. Warfield

Mayor's Business

This Council recognises that the trafficking, exploitation and abuse of women and girls is taking place in South Dublin County and throughout the country within and as a direct result of prostitution. This Council understands prostitution to be a form of violence against women that affects individuals, communities and society as a whole and that human trafficking for sexual exploitation is a modern form of slavery and an abuse of human rights.

This Council calls on the Minister for Justice and Equality to implement the Justice Committee's unanimous recommendations to introduce laws which make it an offence to pay for sex and is seeking such laws. This legislation must criminalise the demand for paid sex while providing social supports for those wishing to exit prostitution and should be enacted in this jurisdiction. The Council will convey its views to the Minister for Justice.

REPORT:

If the motion is passed the terms of the motion will be forwarded to the Minister for Justice and Equality and, when received, a copy of the reply will be circulated to the Members.