Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

They would of course be quite good at choosing good lawyers over bad lawyers but one of the very important points about this procedure is that everyone has to feel equally at home with the process if and when they are interviewed. The people conducting the process have to understand that interviews have to be conducted with rigid fairness and not give some people the idea that they are on the outside and others the impression that they are on the inside track. I support Senator Higgins's proposal.It should not be confined just to the lay people. If I were appointed to this commission, I could benefit a lot from having a course of some kind to remind me of things I would have to bear in mind if I was conducting an oral interview.