A STORMONT body set up to address flags and bonfire issues is set to resume meetings in early March.
The Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition (FICT) was formed in June 2016 to make recommendations on dealing with the contentious issues.
It was meant to report back within 18 months, but no findings were issued and it was suspended amid the collapse of devolution.
The body has so far cost the public purse more than £730,000 in fees and expenses, it emerged last year.
Stormont's Executive Office confirmed to the BBC yesterday that the next meeting of the commission would take place in early March.
FICT was established under the Fresh Start Agreement, negotiated by Stormont parties in November 2015.
The panel is made up of seven political appointees and eight non-political including joint chairs Dominic Bryan and Neville Armstrong.
The political appointees are ex-DUP MLAs Nelson McCausland and Ian McCrea, UUP MLA Doug Beattie, SDLP councillor Carl Whyte, former Alliance Party adviser Richard Good, former Sinn Féin councillor Tom Hartley and former Bogside residents spokesman Donnacha Mac Niallais.
The other non-political appointees are Prof Thomas Hennessey, former Orange Order worker David Hume, Katy Radford, David Robinson, Mukesh Sharma and ex-DUP representative Ian Crozier.
Last year, panel co-chairman Mr Bryan said he believed the commission had been given "too big a brief", while Mr Beattie said it had not been "value for money".
A final report from FICT would need to be signed off by Stormont ministers before being published.
