The Irish and British governments may consider new measures to try to locate the bodies of several people, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in the 1970s.
Today Sinn Féin's President Gerry Adams said IRA members who had killed, transported or buried some of the so-called disappeared had met with a Government-appointed forensic expert in recent months.
Mr Adams gave details of how the IRA members had met seven times with the expert in the past ten months.
That expert's report went to the governments earlier this year.
RTÉ News understands the report and its implications are likely to be discussed by the Cabinet this month.
It could well lead to fresh searches but both governments will be aware how in the past expectations of families were raised but then led to further grief.
Information supplied by the republican movement has led to huge searches by the authorities south of the border in recent years.
The remains of four victims, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, were recovered.
But despite extensive searches, because of inaccurate or insufficient information, five missing bodies were not found.
The IRA says it did not kill two additional missing victims, although their families dispute this.
