Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.

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.

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

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.

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.

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