Sir Reg Empey
Ulster Unionist Party

Today, and not for the first time, Ulster Unionist ministers are excluded from office not because of any deficiencies or wrong doing on our part.

We are excluded from office because the former secretary of state and the prime minister were not prepared to pin the blame where it firmly belongs, on the republican movement, and take the necessary action to punish its members.

Sinn Fein is inextricably linked to the IRA. Therefore, the real promise of the Agreement will only be possible when the IRA and other paramilitaries cease their activities, and in the words of Richard Haass, lose their capability.

Mark Durkan
SDLP

By setting out all those issues and the ideas that the parties have about how to deal with those issues, let the parties also address all the confidence issues.

I believe the best way of resolving in an underlying way the confidence crisis is by all of the parties being able to reassure themselves and prove to the public that we are still all on for all of the Agreement.

We will not do that by ignoring the need to implement aspects of the Agreement or by focusing on one issue and grandstanding on one issue or trying to gang up on particular parties in particular ways.

Gerry Adams
Sinn Fein

We want to warn the governments that this is not the time for passing the parcel, that the governments are party to this Agreement and indeed the outstanding matters, the vast majority of them, are the responsibility of the British government.

We also feel that the absence of the UUP leader David Trimble is not at all helpful.

David Ford
Alliance Party

It is important that review is fully inclusive and fully comprehensive.

It would be disastrous if it only dealt with certain matters and left other problems to rise again after May.

David Ervine
Progressive Unionist Party

I am not sure that an awful lot will come out of this meeting but we are going with an open mind.

You could argue not just that the process has not been managed well since the Agreement, it hasn't been managed at all.

We need to return to the collective approach that existed in the run-up to the Belfast Agreement and I hope lessons have been learned by the governments about the management of the process.

Monica McWilliams
Women's Coalition

Our hope would be that these talks are substantive and we are not just dealing with the issue of private armies.

We have to deal with a whole lot of other issues as well, so at the end of this we have a fully comprehensive package which delivers all of the Good Friday Agreement.

What we would like to hear from Sinn Fein is their bottom line. They are still saying they have issues with criminal justice reforms, human rights, policing, but when the new policing legislation comes out, we don't want this 'by the way, we have one more thing' approach.

Ian Paisley
Democratic Unionist Party (Not taking part in the talks)

It seems to me a very strange thing that we have at the table today, in this building at talks presided over by the Irish Republic's minister as well as the British minister, IRA/Sinn Fein.

We have IRA/Sinn Fein, which at the moment has the finger pointed at it across the whole world - a finger of accusation, the finger that says they were in a spy ring.

So it is very clear today that you have those at the table who are engaged, closely engaged, with international terrorism. Now you cannot have democracy coming from such a womb.