SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Premier Floyd Roland won't be naming the mystery MLA who passed on secrets to him from private committee meetings, according to his press secretary.

Drew Williams: "Media comment or speculation will not serve to advance the interests that all members have in resolving this issue."-

Drew Williams said Roland will not offer any comment regarding the inquiry into his affair with a legislative assembly clerk while it continues.

"Members of the ... legislative assembly have exercised a right that they have," Williams wrote in response to a request for an interview with Roland on Monday.

"There is a process that is now being completed and the premier is participating fully in this process. Media comment or speculation will not serve to advance the interests that all members have in resolving this issue.

"In the meantime, the business of our government continues and the premier is focused on the next step in the extensive capital planning process and looking ahead to the upcoming October assembly."

That an unknown MLA was passing on secret information to the premier from closed door caucus meetings among regular MLAs was revealed last week during testimony at the inquiry.

Roland's lawyer, Kathy Peterson, suggested to Yellowknife MLAs Glen Abernethy and Dave Ramsay - both complainants in the inquiry - that the mystery MLA was the one feeding the premier information on their meetings and not Roland's girlfriend, Patricia Russell, who attended those meetings regularly as the clerk of standing committees.

Both MLAs said they knew a regular member was passing on information, but did not say who it was.

They also said they had no evidence Russell was passing information from the meetings to Roland, but they had difficulties believing she hadn't considering the pair's intimate relation that remained a secret for months.

Weledeh MLA Bob Bromley, also a complainant, said he can't prove which MLA is leaking information.

"I think most of us have our finger at the pulse," said Bromley on Monday, adding he's not concerned about the public perception surrounding the issue.

Section 35 of the Legislative Assembly Members handbook states "the disclosure of confidential information is a breach of privilege and confidence and may be subject to the discipline of the house."

"We do have an internal process and opportunity to try and deal with a situation like this," said Bromley.

"We are each responsible for what we do and one thing we do is maintain a trust with the public and our peers. For me, it's trying to plug the leak and make sure we're all practising our morals as we say we are."

Ramsay said their has been "a lot of suspicion" about who it might be, but would not say who he thinks it is.

He added that "it casts a negative light on all of us if it's out there that one of us is passing on information."

"It's unfortunate there are some out there who leaks confidential information," said Abernethy.

"At the same time it's not everybody and the majority of (us) have respect for this thing we call consensus government."

Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins would not comment when asked about the mystery MLA.

"I don't think it would be appropriate to comment or speculate while an inquiry is happening," said Hawkins.