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" I've often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there's something about Ireland. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Cloyne's revelations are heart-breaking. "

" My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do. "

" 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. "

" The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing. "

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

" Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here. "

" 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. "

" I accept the verdict of the people. "

" I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics. "

" My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on. "

" The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have spent our time in government fixing the economy. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure. "

" 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. "

" Conservation is important... water comes at a cost. "

" Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations. "

" In Ireland here, the Revenue Commission have always been completely independent of the state since 1923, and they are quite adamant and quite clear that there was no preferential treatment and no special deals, no sweetheart deals, and that Apple paid the taxes that were due on their profits generated here in this country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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