The first report from the Independent Reporting Commission, reveals little communities at the knife edge of paramilitary activity don't already know.
Paramilitarism is still rife, it thrives in areas of high deprivation and the lack of proper political direction is hampering progress.
However while the argument that the political crisis is a factor in preventing the implementation of planned strategies holds some water, the reality is that in the previous ten years of relatively unbroken devolution there was little in the way of progress.
In fact the report notes that £12m has been provided in funding to parts of Belfast vulnerable to the influence of paramilitarism, arguably with a poor return on that investment.
In reality paramilitarism has changed dramatically since the Good Friday Agreement, rather than a small number of main groupings there are now a collection of fractured organisations, ruled like mini fiefdoms, little more than individual crime gangs with handfuls of members.
Those former combatants who truly wanted to move on did so quite some time ago, many now contributing to their communities in a positive and meaningful way.
What has been left behind are numerous vigilante gangs, making money both illegally through drugs and extortion, and legally through ill-conceived funding projects that have only served to legitimise senior paramilitary figures.
The first report has revealed little that we don't already know, The second and third will be in the same vein if an acceptance that appeasement of still active gangs is not working and it's time to treat criminals as just that and stop giving political cover to their activities.
