Ministers for Inequality A Chairde, Both PD Senior and Fianna Fáil Junior Ministers in the Department of Justice, Equality, and Law Reform seem to be in the wrong job as they both decry the concept of equality. Minister McDowell says that inequality is necessary for Ireland's economy while Minister O'Dea claims that equal and just taxation, whereby rich corporations pay at least the same rate of tax as low-paid workers, was "deadly dangerous" and would lead to an "industrial wasteland"! Free article