Laura Dowling

Because that's how they survived.

Now, what do you do about that?

If I could have lifted all of those people into my arms and brought them back to Ireland, I would have.

And you end up stepping away from that going, Jesus Christ, like how is this happening?

Not that far away from Ireland.

Like we pretend we're so far away from these things, but we're not.

Not nowadays, be it online or offline.

And then the only thing I could do is when I got into politics, I started working on the revision on human trafficking.

So how do we ultimately end human trafficking, which is one of the most lucrative industries?

It estimated about two or three thousand people get trafficked in and out of Ireland on a yearly basis.

I think that's underreported.

So they come in, they work for a while, then they go on to another country?

either labor, labor trafficking, sexual trafficking, child trafficking.

We pretend it doesn't happen, I think.

But if you look at the ganglands and the grooming of young children for drug trafficking, you've seven, eight year olds that are being trafficked and don't understand why, but they're doing it out of means and ways.

And yet we penalize those kids for selling drugs that our middle class people are buying.

That's not okay.

We penalize the woman that's offering herself or working, hustling in the sex trade, but not the person that's purchasing.

And you wouldn't have them if there was no demand.

And, you know, you take all of the stories and you try and feed it into legislation to make it stop and pull your hair out in the meantime to say it's still ongoing and how do you end it?