In recent weeks, a group of Irish Senators challenged the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, on the passing of his 6 month commitment to review prostitution law in Ireland and his apparent failure to take any significant action in that time. In support of the Turn Off the Red Light campaign (which seeks to end prostitution and sex trafficking in Ireland), the Senators re-affirmed the campaign's demand for a public consultation on the criminalization of the purchase of sex.
In response, Minister Shatter announced that a detailed discussion document, being produced by his department and designed to facilitate the public consultation, would be published by the end of May 2012. He also offered resassurance that the commitments he gave 6 months ago still stood.
Hopefully, come the end of May, the discussion document will indeed be published and the Minister will not have to offer any reassurances about his commitment to this issue again. However, just to be sure, I would encourage everyone to highlight the issue to their local TDs so that it doesn't fall from the agenda for another 6 months.
You can take action on this issue here.
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