The problem is that Ireland is still in the grip of the church, in terms of psyche. Anything that can be deemed "pleasure of the flesh/self gratification" is still frowned upon, and organisations with links to the church use stories about trafficking to further their moral point of view. Obviously, trafficking is a vile and hateful crime but does it happen as much as these organisations make out?
Post famine Catholicism consolidated a hugely conservative structure and so when independence came in the formation of the Free State, the Catholic church already had woven itself deeply into the social, medical and educational infrastructure in Ireland that it suited the nascent Irish state to leave the church to deal with these areas as the church's morality and indeed the church's ownership of many of the buildings in which health and education were administered meant one less thing for the Irish state to be concerned with. For further proof, look at the vast numbers of pro lifers who marched in Dublin when that nurse died (even though an abortion would have saved her.
Crucially, in many parts of the country where there is no multi-/non-denominational school and where the national school (paid for by the state but run by the church) is intransigent, it can be impossible to get a school place if your kid isn't baptised.
It's an absolutely scandalous situation and the fact that it hasn't sparked widespread social discontent says a lot about Irish apathy. I don't think there's another country in Europe where the church has such a stranglehold on education and thus on people's mindset. Even famously Catholic Poland has a more secular school system.
We live always underground
It's going to be so quiet in here tonight
A thousand islands in the sea
It's a shame