Speaking in the Seanad on the Criminal Law Human Trafficking Amendment Bill

The Criminal Justice (Human Trafficking) Amendment Bill 2013 deals primarily with trafficking for  labour exploitation. It further defines the meaning of exploitation, an trafficking for labour exploitation in Irish Law. It explicitly criminalises trafficking for criminal activities and in order to force someone to beg.This Bill is necessary to transpose in full the criminal law porvisions of an EU directive which was adopted in April 2011