The Minister made a fascinating contribution, particularly the additional information he offered and his eulogy of de Valera's Constitution. Given the Minister's family origins, the latter was extremely interesting. However, his responses to questions about whether it could be incorporated into law or into the Constitution were among the weakest part of his contribution. He relied heavily on the 1996 review, which was profoundly conservative in nature and which, for example, took a very hard line on the incorporation of social rights into the Constitution.