Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand the test of the reasonable person. As I said earlier, the complication arises when it is an inquiry into a Member of the Oireachtas. That is where, in my view, it gets a bit messy. We operate within an adversarial system and there are all sorts of things said in the cut and thrust of political debate. How can the Minister assure us that this sense of institutional or party political bias is adequately catered for in the provisions? Arguably, in the minds of reasonable people, politicians investigating another politician in and of itself would perhaps sound alarm bells. I have raised this concern before.