'Tánaiste Michael Martin believes it is important to bring about restoration sooner rather than later'

'We hope his wisdom will prevail and encourage politicians in the North to get Stormont up and running'

"There has been peace for 25 years and we want to continue that'

'The Cavan councillor believes if anything, the recent scenes in Omagh should centre the minds of those in talks'

'While progress has been made, there is still work to be done'

'The British Prime Minister is in Belfast this morning'

'We would move from having a situation where full double majority is required in the Assembly to a majority of two thirds of Assembly members in order to elect a speaker'

'We are starting to build relationships and so it wasn't a hard hitting meeting'