Enda Kenny Quotes
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I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
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Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.
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My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.
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The world has changed utterly. There was a time when you couldn't marry a Protestant. There was a time when you got married that the women had to give up their job in the public service, and when they got married, they were owned by their husbands. That's all changed.
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Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.
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You're not going to be able to deliver jobs locally unless you sort out the nation's problems, and that's why the big and difficult decisions about Ireland's economy have been so crucial and so difficult for people to have to accept and have to deal with, but the reality is the people gave this government an unprecedented mandate.
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Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.
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We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead.
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You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.
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Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.
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We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.
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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.
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The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
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Whether it's in relation to the sort of music that is played there or not, in any event, it's tragic for the families involved here.
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We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
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Emigration is always a difficulty.
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If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?
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If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country.
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I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'
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Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.
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So I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don't mean Castlebar Mitchels, I mean the whingers that I hear every week.
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We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.
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If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.