MPs have called for greater clarity from the UK government over its planned changes to legacy proposals for Northern Ireland.
Members of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (NIAC) have published a report following an inquiry.
It comes as Westminster prepares to scrutinise the proposed legislation in detail in coming weeks with some MPs hoping to amend it.
The new law will substantially reform the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery, creating two new bodies to replace it.
NIAC criticised the way in which the UK government had handled consultation around their planned legacy changes agreed with the Irish Government.
The report said it had "attracted criticism" from families.
"In future consultation rounds, the government must implement a strategy whereby people feel genuinely consulted on policy proposals, not simply told what that policy will be," it said.
It recommended that in considering the replacement legacy bill the government should address a series of concerns.
These include a lack of any specific requirement for investigations to be compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights.
It said the exclusion of most Troubles-related sexual crime from the new Legacy Commission's remit should be addressed.
And it called for fairness for former British Army veterans to ensure that "investigations do not become punitive".
It said the reassurances already offered to them by the UK government are safeguards available to all and presenting them as "protections" for former soldiers risks "undermining their trust" in the process.
The report also said the Irish Government should demonstrate its commitment to establishing human rights compliant investigations, underpinned by legislation.
It said there was also a lack of clarity on a proposed legacy unit within An Garda Síochána.
The report said Dublin should "move at pace" to demonstrate good faith and maximise confidence in the new arrangements.
It also said "lack of progress" on an inquiry within the Republic of Ireland on the 1998 Omagh bombing remained a "profound obstacle" to uncovering the full truth of the dissident republican explosion that killed 29 people and two unborn babies.
It expressed reservations about the memorandum of understanding agreed with the Irish government over the provision of information to the ongoing UK public inquiry into the atrocity.
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