The Government must also clarify what constitutes for one director, ‘experience of conducting criminal investigations in Northern Ireland’, given the proposal that the other director, ‘will not have that experience but will have experience of conducting criminal investigations outside Northern Ireland’; and who arbitrates if the two directors disagree on how a case should progress. (Recommendation, Paragraph 96) 82

The Government must also clarify what constitutes for one director, ‘experience of conducting criminal investigations in Northern Ireland’, given the proposal that the other director, ‘will not have that experience but will have experience of conducting criminal investigations outside Northern Ireland’; and who arbitrates if the two directors disagree on how a case should progress. (Recommendation, Paragraph 96) 82 Type: recommendation | Number: 14 | Response status: accepted Government response: The Troubles Bill requires the Secretary of State to ensure, so far as practicable, that one of the Directors has experience of conducting criminal investigations in Northern Ireland, and that the other Director does not have that experience, but has experience of conducting criminal investigations