Ms Josephine Feehily:

With regard to where that layer is, I must keep referencing the fact that one cannot oversee a body, including dismissing an individual, if that individual is personally accountable to somebody else. Unless the architecture in terms of the role of the Minister, the Government and the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality is resolved, there is no point in giving the Policing Authority a power related to the Commissioner where the Commissioner's personal accountability is to someone else. It could not be done legally so the entire architecture issue must be resolved. The appointment and the dismissal must go together. There is no other legal, safe way to do it, although I am not a lawyer.