Mr. Justice Alan Mahon:

Yes. Our legislation provides for exclusions, but it says in order to make a complaint, people must fit it into one of the categories. The categories are reasonably wide and I do not see any great issue in that. I am not suggesting they exclude bullying or things like that. With the Women of Honour and all that, it came to be of particular relevance that perhaps it would serve my office and the Defence Forces better if a would-be complainant with, say, an interpersonal complaint, one of sexual misbehaviour or harassment or any of those, looks at the list in section 4, he or she will see in plain language that is says "Interpersonal issues" or something like that. I am not suggesting for a minute there is a large group out there who are looking at this list, not seeing "Interpersonal issues" and therefore deciding not to complain.