The Independent Monitoring Commission is considering issuing a report on the attempted abduction of a dissident republican in Belfast.
The commission, which monitors paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland, said it would consider issuing an "ad-hoc report" on the attempted kidnapping of Bobby Tohill from a Belfast city centre bar last month.
The British and Irish governments had asked the commission to bring forward its first report on paramilitary activity following concerns about Provisional IRA involvement in the incident.
PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde said he believed Provisional IRA members were responsible, a claim that was supported by the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern and the Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, but denied by Sinn Féin.
Sinn Féin's Mr Martin McGuinness claimed the allegation of IRA involvement was manufactured by elements in the PSNI who were "hostile" to the peace process.
The IRA released a statement saying it did not authorise the abduction of Mr Tohill, although it did not deny the men arrested were members of the organisation.
Mr Tohill, a former INLA member and well-known dissident republican, has refused to make a formal complaint to the PSNI and insists the incident was not paramilitary but was the result of a fight in a bar.
Four men have been charged with abduction and grievous bodily harm of Mr Tohill. However, charges of IRA membership were not laid.
The attempted kidnapping has created problems for talks at Stormont aimed at restoring the Northern Ireland Assembly, with unionist parties calling for sanctions against Sinn Féin.
The Independent Monitoring Commission was set up last year to monitor paramilitary ceasefires, the honouring of commitments on the scaling down of military installations and to examine, when devolution returns, whether all parties are honouring their ministerial pledges in a devolved government.