Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I forgot to add one important question. In my last contribution, I surfaced the issue of where information given by an individual to the confidential committee might adversely affect other people's reputations or make claims about other people, living or deceased. Therefore, the question of redaction, or otherwise, does not just concern the wishes of the person giving information to the confidential committee and whether he or she wants his or her name associated with it; it also concerns the content of what has been said and how it might affect living or deceased persons, having regard to the fact that those persons would not have the benefit of what Senator McDowell has described, that is, the adversarial process or what we might call the "in re Haughey" rights. Will the Minister also consider that as a key issue as he considers his possible amendments?