392 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the legal powers that exist to monitor and if necessary ban or block websites advertising sexual services here; if escort services can legally be included in this list; the measures that have been taken to ascertain the persons behind such websites, such as brothel keepers or criminal gangs; if an investigation has been carried out regarding whether those who sell sexual services or their company on a per hour basis via such websites are working free of their own volition whether in conjunction with a pimp or not, or are working under someone’s control due to financial or social circumstances or as a result of an addiction; if investigations are or have been carried out to find out if any such persons advertised have been trafficked; the actions that can be taken to prosecute the sinister element behind the vast majority of those working as prostitutes and escorts, specifically from the website route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28457/10]

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392 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the legal powers that exist to monitor and if necessary ban or block websites advertising sexual services here; if escort services can legally be included in this list; the measures that have been taken to ascertain the persons behind such websites, such as brothel keepers or criminal gangs; if an investigation has been carried out regarding whether those who sell sexual services or their company on a per hour basis via such websites are working free of their own volition whether in conjunction with a pimp or not, or are working under someone’s control due to financial or social circumstances or as a result of an addiction; if investigations are or have been carried out to find out if any such persons advertised have been trafficked; the actions that can be taken to prosecute the sinister element behind the vast majority of those working as prostitutes and escorts, specifically from the website route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28457/10]

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1. 29 June 2010

   Sexual Offences

   392 Deputy Paul Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the legal powers that exist to monitor and if necessary ban or block websites advertising sexual services here; if escort services can legally be included in this list; the measures that have been taken to ascertain the persons behind such websites, such as brothel keepers or criminal gangs; if an investigation has been carried out regarding whether those who sell sexual services or their company on a per hour basis via such websites are working free of their own volition whether in conjunction with a pimp or not, or are working under someone’s control due to financial or social circumstances or as a result of an addiction; if investigations are or have been carried out to find out if any such persons advertised have been trafficked; the actions that can be taken to prosecute the sinister element behind the vast majority of those working as prostitutes and escorts, specifically from the website route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28457/10]

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