"It is, in my belief, a view that republicans would have that if the agreement had've moved from where it originally was to, after the 22nd of May vote of 1998 that they had a period of two years to deal with this issue.
"They would say because of procrastination by others and not them, an enormous amount of that period is already gone and probably another period, hopefully not too long, but another certainly of several months more is going to be gone and they'll be asked from the time of start to finish will be probably seven or eight months. So I think that is an issue that is there.
"But if that is easily accepted, Gerald, then we're into a difficulty that one of the principles that all the parties have already agreed to is there.
"So I think the best way of dealing with this is that if General de Chastelain in the totality of this could be allowed deal with the parties or directly with the paramilitaries as we've now agreed, though there will be some difficulty holding to all of those agreements, it is not appropriate for others I think to be doing bits and pieces of that. The International Decommissioning Body are the only organisation in my view that can deal with it."