Ms Emma Regan:

It is a situation of weighing up the continuum to which the Chairman referred to previously and deciding if the vast majority on that continuum have not made a free choice. Then those are the people the law should seek to protect. Those who make a free choice to enter the sex industry would not be criminalised by this law and if demand remains, it is possible that they will manage to operate in the sex industry but the people who do not wish to do so will be less likely to because there will be less demand.