Jimmy Gomez: “How can you prepare if there wasn't something of that sort?”

I stand ready to cooperate with the Ethics Committee inquiry and provide it with whatever information it might need.

I take full responsibility and have committed myself to working through the pain privately with my wife and family.

I respect the Committee's process and am confident that a full and impartial review of the facts will bear that out.

As I said when the existence of an inquiry was first reported two months ago in the media, years ago, I made personal mistakes outside my marriage.