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THE DÁIL’S JUSTICE committee is to hear submissions on prostitution legislation in Ireland tomorrow.
In June of this year, the Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter published a discussion document on the future direction of prostitution legislation in Ireland. He referred that document to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, and the committee invited written submissions from interested groups or individuals in relation to this review.
The committee received more than 850 submissions and tomorrow it will begin the discussion around the submissions.
The document published by Minister Shatter does not favour any particular approach to changing the current laws in Ireland, but does offer suggestions about how to deal with the ongoing problem here.
At the time, the Minister said that prostitution was once mainly a street-based phenomenon, but it is no longer the case due to the use of mobile phones and the internet.
He also acknowledged that there are differing views on how criminal law should deal with prostitution.
Submissions
The Justice committee will begin the first of its hearings on the submissions at its meeting tomorrow afternoon.
Among those attending tomorrow’s meeting will be: Dr Gillian Wylie, TCD and Dr Eilís Ward, NUI Galway; and representatives from: Act to Prevent Trafficking (APT); Barnardos; Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI); Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO); Irish Medical Organisation (IMO); Irish Immigrant Support Centre (NASC); National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI); One in Four; and Ruhama.
Committee Chairman David Stanton, TD, said:
As legislators with the responsibility for reviewing Ireland’s prostitution laws, it is important that we engage with people and organisations working with those involved in prostitution to get their views on current legislation and discuss what legislative changes they would like to see.
He added that members of the committee have already met with fellow parliamentarians in Sweden to discuss their experiences of the drafting and implementation of its legislation on prostitution.
This meeting will start in Committee Room 2, Leinster House at 2pm. Committee proceedings can be followed live at this link.
The Turn Off The Red Light Campaign is calling for the criminalisation of buying sex acts in Ireland, similar to the changes in law enacted in Sweden. It began a billboard campaign in August.
In October 2011, Minister Shatter published a report into the Swedish legislation, following lobbying by the EU-funded Dignity research project.
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Trump threatened to sue the comedian Jon Stewart for suggesting that his father was an Orang Utan.
Trump even sent the TV show host a copy of his birth certificate.
Stewart replied that the short cert was no good and only the long form of the cert would be acceptable.
It was Bill Maher that Trump threatened to sue; they had a long running battle via Maher’s Real Time show on HBO. it’s fair to say that Jon Stewart isn’t Trump’s biggest fan either.
In fairness to the ferret, he’s doing a great job.
He’s almost just a sideshow act at this stage, mind you, a very dangerous one. There’s no flies on him, if there were he’d have them paying rent.
Sideshow Bob lives……
Finally! We are getting past silly season and down to the core principles of the candidates
The hero America deserves https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuesauNtqTU
She should’ve given it a good ol yank !
It’s the most elaborate comb over known to man!
And that matters because?
Would his hair be so pristine on a wet night in Stoke?
Of course it’s real. Did anybody serioualy think it was a toupee? It’s the mother of all combovers. He’s a bald man who has weaved his remaining hair into something truly terrifying, but it’s obvious it’s all his own. No wigmaker would produce something so horrendous.
If it is real, it’s more embarrassing having all that money and still both being and looking like a complete bloody clown
He’s 70 years of age u tw@t!! What will u look like at that age!
Clowns live to 70 too David. Your close enough yourself I’d say.
I was referring to his David, that’s what the article was about
#hair
OMG it’s you!
Ah yes, but would he bring someone up to see if he actually has a soul?
I’d be more interested to know did she find signs of anything between his ears.
he’s an awful eejit that fella, him and the shredded wheat on his head!!
But at least he never bombed an entire country
The hair screamed and curled up in a ball.
she must have been a PLANT!
He’s right about the need to focus on mental health over gun control though. Lots of wackos killing people in this country too with no guns readily available.
It’s refreshing to see someone actual come out and say it rather than parroting the same jaded anti-gun talking points.
I’m surprised his hair didn’t attack her
I think her name is Barber-a
Trump the only candidate who can make America Great Again. Failed career politicians beholden to lobbyist and big donors can’t do it.
USA is built on the genocide of native Americans, the theft and rape of their lands, slavery of African people, and military campaigns in other countries, many illegal. If that’s what you mean by greatness, then I guess Trump will carry along those lines.
I have no problem with his hair it’s what’s under it
Head lice, sorry Headline news ….. ‘Donald Trump combs his hair’. Ground breaking journalism at it’s best!
The planet is in crisis and all liberals worry about is someone’s hairstyle.
Says is all really.
Its called Idiocracy and it gets worse by the month
Now if she could only do the same test on David Davin Power.
Why did she pull on the side??
Why not the top and show the entire comb forward?
PLANT
” I can confirm he does not have gills “
Of course it’s real, it’s a ferret trained to sit on top of his head but sometimes it has a mind of its own
A plant obviously..an implant..lol
trump for president hahaha only in America
His hair ‘might’ be real but trump is an obnoxious tool.
Implants.
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