The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr McDowell, told the Irish Catholic:
"A dynamic liberal economy like ours demands flexibility and inequality in some respects to function." It was such inequality "which provides incentives".
"Driven to a complete extreme, the current rights culture and equality notion would create a feudal society. A society so ordered, static, and where the Government tries to order everything by law, it would become as atrophied as a feudal society."