Gary Anandasangaree: “We’re quite confident of our legal position on this, but at the same time we want to respect the process.”

There will obviously be some serious lessons that come out of that process.

By and large, our security apparatus does a comprehensive job with respect to security screening.

Taking part in any kind of criminal offence could preclude individuals from serving in government.

But from the time I understood and learned about this to the time the formal announcement took place, I was quite comfortable that individual was secured and it would be minimal if no risk to the public.