Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The House in its process would have the right to get the facts from any person who would have those facts. The subject of the investigation would be one such person. I understand the powers of compulsion appear elsewhere in the Statute Book, for example, under the Companies Acts and, therefore, we could not presume that one is talking about incrimination when somebody just gives information, facts and evidence. It could not be used in a criminal case and a committee set up by the House would just receive and record factual evidence. It would not be used in a biased way when sent back to the Houses.