Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

Everything we do by way of investigation will impact on people, whether a class of people or an individual person. I trust my colleagues. I acknowledge it will be a new challenge for them. Members will have to recuse themselves from participation in some work on the basis of constituency or previous utterances. A discipline will be required but, by and large, people involved in other work in the past have maintained that discipline. I accept Senator O'Brien's view that politicians can make difficult decisions in the national interest-----