Cork Labour Party senator Laura Harmon has called on justice minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan to keep his word and enact legislation to criminalise the practice of offering rooms to rent in exchange for sex.<\/p>\n
Speaking in advance of the National Women\u2019s Council conference on housing precarity, homelessness, and violence against women and girls, Ms Harmon said Mr O\u2019Callaghan committed to bringing legislation to Cabinet in May that would tackle sex for rent in response to legislation published by the Labour Party to end this practice.<\/p>\n
Ms Harmon said: \u201cFour months on, I am urging the minister to be true to his word and move now to deliver real protections for vulnerable renters \u2014 particularly for women at risk of homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Harmon said she has sought a meeting with Mr O\u2019Callaghan on this matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe worsening housing crisis is particularly impacting the most vulnerable in our communities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019m aware that ads still exist online where people are clearly using the housing crisis to prey on vulnerable people living in insecure housing. It needs to stop now.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cA report from the National Women\u2019s Council last year shone a stark light on just how prevalent this is. Marginalised women, particularly those already at risk of homelessness, are being targeted by men who offer housing in return for sex. This is happening in modern Ireland \u2014 and it is a national disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork Labour Party senator Laura Harmon has called on justice minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan to keep his word and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2670,18,13,14,6,3847,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-69240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-politics","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}