Ms Josephine Feehily:

I have no difficulty in committing to look at our protocols. I would still retain a very strong caveat. We meet representative bodies, for example. We meet victims' representative groups. We have to be in a position to meet people in an official context. Otherwise we are stuck with what we can do with the material. This is one of the points the authority made in its review of its own effectiveness. We are a particular type of creature of statute. People assess the authority's performance by reference to what they think we ought to be able to do. An oversight body has to stand above the body it is overseeing. We have to be extremely careful about conflicts. Otherwise we are reducing and damaging our capacity to do our job.