Enda Kenny Quotes
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I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest nation and most powerful nation on Earth.
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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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Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.
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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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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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We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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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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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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Emigration is always a difficulty.
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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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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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I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.
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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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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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Failure to curb temperature increases will impact all countries, Ireland included, but with the most immediate and drastic effects being felt, in many instances, by the most vulnerable countries and communities.
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I accept the verdict of the people.
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It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses.