Mark Durkan Quotations

There should be no space or excuse for continued criminal behavior of any kind.

For us that has to mean the Government has to return to the Good Friday Agreement as the baseline document in any negotiations we have.

Remember among the people trying hardest to prevent the election of first and deputy first ministers were people who couldn't contain themselves when they were taking ministerial office just a few days ago.

What we had this morning was hope. By this afternoon hype, and now this evening it's a debacle.

The Eaga Partnership has done a very, very good job because it doesn't just raise a very important problem, it actually brings forward practical solutions.

We are two months on from the IRA statement and 64 months on from the deadline for completing (weapons) decommissioning in the agreement. The scrapping of IRA weapons is long overdue. It needs to happen now without further delay. The longer the IRA strings this out, the more it damages the Good Friday agreement.

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.