David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Head 12 concerns persons required to attend before the competent authority under section 18 of the 2014 Act to answer questions and so on. I do not have to hand a copy of the 2014 Act. If someone is summoned and has to answer questions and so forth, can he or she be assisted by members of the legal profession, whether solicitors, barristers or whatever? If so, who covers the cost? My sense is it would be possible for the person to have someone with him or her to assist from a legal point of view but I am not sure from reading the heads of the Bill, and I have not referred back to the other Acts to check.