Enda Kenny Quotes

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Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn’t any confusion about Ireland‘s corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.

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What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done.

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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

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The E.U. needs renewal, and we need a strong U.K. at the table to help to drive the reform agenda that can help the union regain competitiveness and growth.

Enda Kenny

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that’s all.

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My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years.

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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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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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For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of ‘Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.’ It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.

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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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For too long, Ireland has neglected its children.

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Rather than just saying, like, ‘Your economy is the be all and end all,’ I go back to my three roots that I’ve often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect.

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My genuine belief is that if we can get through the eurozone crisis from a political point of view, we’ve got a lot of engines that can drive our economy, that will restore confidence and get us moving on.

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

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The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.

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Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.

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I get on very well with Denis Naughten, absolutely.

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People understand that you have to do difficult things to sort out our own public finances.

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We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable economic policies. We need to keep pushing forward towards a comprehensive solution to the challenges of the eurozone.

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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.

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I accept the verdict of the people.

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We’ve got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that’s what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there’s a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.

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I enjoy his concerts and OK, maybe – I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t play the guitar, but I am going to go a long way if I keep following Springsteen.

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Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.

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I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.

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We are going to serve our full term; there will be no snap election, and we are going to do our best to ensure that 2016 is going to be a good economic year.

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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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The U.K. and Ireland are like-minded on E.U. matters, and the process of working together in Brussels has built an immense store of knowledge, personal relationships, and trust between our governments.

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I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.

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People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.

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COP 21 provides a unique opportunity for the political leaders of this generation to provide lasting foundations for the preservation and sustainability of generations of the future.

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I am a big believer in Springsteen, I like his social comment; I like the commitment he puts into his work.

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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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Emigration is always a difficulty.

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The lion‘s share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

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I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.

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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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To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold – the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.

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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.

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

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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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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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By far, the greatest contribution Ireland can make is to lead by example, by actively pursuing its own transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.

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