Commission chair Justice McClellan said the medical reports of Cardinal Pell and former Ballarat Bishop Ronald Mulkearns would not be made public. Evidence tendered at the inquiry said the bishop suffered anxiety, cognitive problems, difficulty sleeping, colon cancer and was in chronic pain with a life expectancy of months. The inquiry also heard the bishop feared as a consequence of his health conditions he may be seen as a “hostile or unreliable witness.” Justice McClellan also accepted medical evidence that Cardinal Pell was at risk of heart failure if forced to fly to Australia from Rome.