Ms Dolores Kelly:

They are not necessarily present at the Haass talks but we know of significant lobbying by representatives who were high-ranking officers. Some of that relates to how we deal with the past regarding improving the powers available to, for example, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland or any subsequent new investigations unit, of compellability of former police officers having to appear. I know representatives of victims groups will appear later and the committee will hear more about that. Those kinds of what would seem very sensible provisions were being railed against in any proposals on dealing with the past and improving the powers of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.