Aideen Hayden (Labour)

With regard to sacerdotal privilege, the Minister illustrated at great lengths the provisions of the Cook v. Carroll case. That did not involve the confessional but rather a meeting in the priest's office. For the sake of argument, if an abuser in a family goes to a priest in a confessional, saying that he or she is behaving in a way that is wrong but the person cannot prevent the behaviour, is it correct to say that a disclosure made in the confessional while engaging in what the person in question would call the sacrament of penance is not privileged in the context of this Bill, according to the Minister?