Enda Kenny Quotes

A Canada-style deal for the whole of the UK results in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For that reason, it has never been acceptable to the EU without a permanent hard border down the Irish Sea.

Both the U.K. and the E.U. have made a sincere commitment to the people of Northern Ireland: there will be no hard border. Equally, as a U.K. government, we could not countenance a future in which a border was drawn in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.

If Northern Ireland is in one customs regime and the Republic of Ireland is in another, why won't a customs border be necessary, just as happens with every other land border of this type?

No-one wants to see a return to the hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

If the U.K. had new watertight proposals for the border, I don't think anyone in the E.U. would say, 'We don't want to talk about it.'

The referendum was clear: the British people voted to leave the single market and to take back control of our borders.

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.

Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.

You don't need to be a John Maynard Keynes to understand that if Britain leaves the European market, a border will have to be put in place - and that would break U.K. obligations in a treaty lodged at the United Nations.

I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.

France no longer has any borders because of the E.U.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.

We want the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.

The negotiations on the future of the U.K. and the E.U. must be led... in the interest of our citizens.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.