Quotes in the weeks leading up to today's raids.
"If he believes that I am involved in a criminal conspiracy to rob, and that I withheld information, then he has a civic responsibility to make sure that I am subjected and Martin McGuinness is subjected to the due process."
- Mr Gerry Adams, asking the Taoiseach to have him arrested if he believed he was involved in the Northern Bank robbery
"I just want to get on with it. I think all of this thing is a little bit childish, a bit of nonsense. There are serious matters that have happened and it's no good people letting on that they didn't. That's silly."
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, in response to Mr Adams
"The IRA has been accused of involvement in the recent Northern Bank robbery. We were not involved."
- P. O'Neill statement last month after the PSNI officially identified the IRA as the chief suspects in the Northern Bank raid
"On the basis of the investigating work we have done to date, the evidence we have collected, the information we have collected, the exhibits we have collected, and putting that all together and working through it, is that in my opinion the Provisional IRA were responsible for this crime, and all main lines of inquiry currently undertaken are in that direction."
- PSNI Chief Constable Mr Hugh Orde, last month
"The thought that when we were trying to negotiate a comprehensive deal that others, and perhaps others who were closely associated, were getting ready to have one of the biggest Christmas robberies that ever took place does nothing to help anybody's confidence."
- The Taoiseach, after Mr Orde's statement
"Hugh Orde's comments are nothing more than allegations and politically biased allegations at that. He has not produced one scrap of evidence."
- Martin McGuinness, after Mr Orde's statement