Last week the US state department downgraded Ireland in its annual survey of countries that are meeting minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking.

The report said the government has not obtained a trafficking conviction since the law was amended in 2013, pointing out that there had been only three prosecutions last year.

Matt spoke to Anna, a young Romanian woman who was trafficked from Britain several years ago and forced to work in prostitution in the west and north-west of Ireland.

She has told her harrowing story in a new book, Slave.

To catch the full chat press the play button on the image on the top of the screen