Peter Hain, former Northern Ireland secretary of state
"It is still my very strong view that the past needs to be dealt with in an entirely different way.
"It has got to be handled in an even-handed way.
"If you're not going to bring prosecutions against former paramilitaries, whether republican or loyalist, then the same must apply to British soldiers on the terrible Bloody Sunday shootings for which David Cameron apologised.
"Now given they have arrested and detained Gerry Adams, I think they now have an obligation to go through with the enquiry currently conducted by the PSNI and arrest and detain the soldiers. Whether prosecutions result in any of these cases is an entirely different point."
"It is still my very strong view that the past needs to be dealt with in an entirely different way.
"It has got to be handled in an even-handed way.
"If you're not going to bring prosecutions against former paramilitaries, whether republican or loyalist, then the same must apply to British soldiers on the terrible Bloody Sunday shootings for which David Cameron apologised.
"Now given they have arrested and detained Gerry Adams, I think they now have an obligation to go through with the enquiry currently conducted by the PSNI and arrest and detain the soldiers. Whether prosecutions result in any of these cases is an entirely different point."