Enda Kenny

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up. ”

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. ”

We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking. ”

We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead. ”

It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses. ”

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process. ”

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy. ”

Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice. ”

By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area. ”

We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe. ”