Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

It will be the nature of the process that the committee will be able to guard as much information as possible. Crucial to that will be the need to have a fair procedure and provide for due process to enable the person who is the subject of the investigation to come before it to give evidence which could be used in the person's favour. One must not assume that anything the person would say would automatically be used against him.