Legislation which will criminalise forced labour and end “modern slavery” in Ireland, has been passed in the Dáil...The Bill transfers an EU directive on trafficking into Irish law...Introducing the legislation, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter said “we must use all the tools and resources at our disposal to prevent and combat human trafficking, prosecute the perpetrators and protect its victims”. He described trafficking in human beings as an “an appalling crime, a serious abuse of human rights and an affront to the dignity of the human person”...The Bill deals primarily with trafficking for labour exploitation...and defines forced labour in line with the definition of the International Labour Organisation...Labour TD Robert Dowds highlighted a case of modern slavery in his Dublin Mid-West constituency [of] a Pakistani National working in an Indian takeaway in Clondalkin...