Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring:

Not necessarily. I am not saying we would necessarily resort to that information or that people would not still have the opportunity to rely on legal privilege. However, if we are told in the course of an investigation, particularly a serious investigation, that a person was advised by the Garda legal services that he or she was to do X, Y or Z, how do we measure whether what the person is telling us is truthful if we do not have sight of that?