I don’t like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don’t like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
There will be no hard border from Dundalk to Derry in the context of it being a European border, and by that I mean customs posts every mile along the road. – Enda Kenny
My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs. – Enda Kenny
I’m a big fan of Springsteen. Obviously, his social commentary is very powerful for me. I like his album ‘The Rising.’ It’s not a new one, but it sticks in my mind because of what it says to me. – Enda Kenny
Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here. – Enda Kenny
I am a big believer in Springsteen, I like his social comment; I like the commitment he puts into his work. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
People understand that you have to do difficult things to sort out our own public finances. – Enda Kenny
I think – whether it’s music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want – there’s nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world. – Enda Kenny
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. – Enda Kenny
