Ms Emma Regan:

If we accept that prostitution is exploitative and that people enter it without making free choices we have to balance the rights of those people with the rights, which were referred to, of people who are interested in having a sexual relationship and cannot do so. It is clear to me in any event, that the right of a person not to be abused in prostitution would come before the other rights referred to. For that reason, it is not vitally important to advocate for the rights of people who cannot have sexual relationship in another context to have such a relationship through the availability of people for sale.