I'm now going through, and indeed have been over the past week, a process in which I will be making an announcement in the next few days.

What I've done in this decision overnight is to send an absolutely crystal clear signal to everybody that we will not tolerate violence.

Provided the enabling environment is established and maintained, this program will be achievable within two years, though if the conditions are right to move more quickly in implementing elements of the plan, the government will do so,

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

These are early days,