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“Is there a reason for that—one that you want to share—and are you making any recommendations, including to Lord Murphy’s review?”

“Thank you. Lisa Claire, I will put the same set of questions to you. Do you think there are other practical, specific impacts or divergences that highlight some of the gaps; what is your assessment of maintenance of the necessary conditions and engagement; and what are your recommendations, including to Lord Murphy’s r…”

“I know you could. We are no longer quorate—I appreciate the Chair trying to keep us moving—but what you said illustrates the point exactly. The arrangements were frozen in time around a political mood a year ago—and an obsession with sausages, feelings and all that—and stewardship of our most vital environmental resour…”

“I am going to come back to your recommendations, but can I pull out that Lough Neagh example? It is a very visible, lurid green and terrifying example of what is going wrong. What are its practical impacts?”

“Baroness O’Loan, do you want to come in on either of those issues? Baroness O’Loan: I never make assumptions about why people do things until I have the evidence to tell me, so I will not make any assumptions, but I think the time has come to name the agent Stakeknife.”

“It is one of those things where the process is catching up with the public. Thank you very much.”

“Baroness O’Loan, I want to build on what you said about disclosure and that being the context. You said in your submission to us that, “Having announced the repeal of the Act, the Government has now made clear that it intends to maintain the ICRIR which is a fundamental problem”. You later said, in bold, “What is requi…”

“You have answered a number of things that I was going to ask. In regard to separate and firewalled pathways for information retrieval and investigative processes, can you give an assessment of the need for accountability mechanisms for non-state actors? Can you perhaps comment on how that might affect the issue with na…”

“Can you comment on what would be required to facilitate full participation or synergy—for want of a better word—with the Republic’s investigations into legacy and their authorities?”

“Chief Constable, in the light of the appeal on the Sean Brown inquiry and the appeal on the legacy ruling, can you understand circling the wagons a bit on Thompson, and even potentially, as we might touch on, holding back aspects of Kenova? Can you understand the view that it is still, and increasingly, security elites…”

“You built Kenova, and it is associated with, I suppose, a degree of confidence from families that other investigations did not have. Would you agree with Baroness O’Loan’s written comments that ICRIR has been “widely rejected”?”

“There is a lot in all of that about the draft reports not being passed back from last August. Perhaps you have all been very committed to protecting national security and been very professional, but it appears that it is over the potential disclosure of the name of the agent known as Stakeknife. You have committed to n…”

“I completely understand that, and I am making the point that you have at no point attempted to overstep that. You expressed frustration last year that none of a dozen or more perpetrators, against whom there was strong and compelling evidence, were going to be prosecuted, and then further information became available a…”

“I think we are all desperately trying to look forward, but some of this stuff is so egregious, as well as current and relevant to what we are talking about. We have heard in evidence that scaling up Operation Kenova would be the most cost effective and powerful way of addressing legacy. Could you briefly address how th…”

“Q2. Today, the Trump Administration will announce new tariffs that will hurt working people in the US and around the world. Does the Prime Minister agree that, at a time when big tech has grown fat by corrupting our politics and preying on young people, the wrong approach would be to pander to his bullying tactics and …”

“Some colleagues will pick up on Kenova. Kenny, you have spoken about the profile of the cases that your organisations deal with, and the desirability of an individual name rather than a corporate narrative. What accountability and verification mechanisms do you think can exist for non-state actors? Have you had any con…”

“Sandra, do you have views on the viability of separating it, and what that would mean for families as they seek either of those two outcomes?”

“Do you have any confidence in the exploration of what those verification measures could be?”

“I want to come back to the issue of separating the truth-seeking and the investigative processes. The Government are saying that they will pursue some of the successful elements, or the perceived successful elements, of Stormont House. What benefit would that have?”

“And parties.”