Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In gathering evidence a person can be compelled. We are giving compulsion powers to require people to answer questions. It is much like a tribunal, as I understand it. If somebody refuses to answer a question in a tribunal, that is an offence. Equally, we know that evidence produced in a tribunal cannot be used to prosecute the people who were compelled to come to it.