Irish - Politician | April 24, 1951 -
The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind.
Enda Kenny
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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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One of the key drivers of Ireland's future is our balance of trade surplus.
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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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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.
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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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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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Our revenue commissions are very happy and very clear that they showed no sweetheart deals and no preference for any company and never do and never have and never will.
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We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.
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Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
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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.
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