Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My clear understanding is that, as the law stands, the only person who can opt to have the hearing in public is the person bringing the complaint. Therefore, it is not the FSPO who makes the decision to have the hearing in public. By virtue of the fact that the complainant is willing to have the hearing in public, he or she is giving implied permission to be known. If he or she wanted to have it in private, he or she could do so. It is his or her choice, nobody else's.

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