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"Mr President, I want to focus on two specific areas of this very wide-ranging report on organised crime in the EU. Firstly, I have long advocated that the proceeds of confiscated criminal assets should be reinvested in the communities which have been devastated by organised and serious crime. The social use of seized criminal assets for youth support, regeneration projects or even crime prevention could really help empower these communities. Indeed, over the course of our work we learned of good examples from Italy. I will certainly be taking up the report’s recommendations in this regard with the Irish Government in relation to assets seized by our own Criminal Assets Bureau.
Secondly, I welcome the report’s recommendations in relation to human trafficking, particularly those which advocate criminalising people who avail themselves of the services of victims of trafficking. Almost 900 000 people are trafficked in the EU each year for labour and sexual exploitation. Some stark examples have emerged this week of children possibly being traded and even abused. The discovery of a distressed teenager in Dublin this week is a reminder that Ireland is affected very much by human trafficking. I would ask the Commission to consider proposals for an EU-wide helpline in relation to victims of trafficking."@en1
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