Having regard to the information already contained in the initial report produced by Mr. Dermot Cole, it is clear that there are serious doubts that the applications were properly grounded. The direct involvement of Mr. Burke and Mr. Haughey in the Mahfouz affair shows that breaches of the citizenship procedures were tolerated to an extraordinary degree. The current Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform must now ask questions of all the parties which make up this affair. If there is nothing to hide, an inquiry will show this.