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Buddy-buddy and ‘so help me God’: The week in quotes

THE FULL EXTENT of what TDs get paid in expenses was revealed and the Taoiseach was accused of being far too pally with his French counterpart.

There was the US president’s offer to help a woman’s husband find a job and our own president’s offer of advice on what partly caused the country’s economic collapse.

Here’s what else was said over the past week:

Buddy-buddy and ‘so help me God’: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “If you send me your husband’s resume I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there because the word we’re getting is that somebody in that kind of hi-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away.” - US President Barack Obama offers to help one woman and her family during a web chat.
  • Week in quotes

    “People would claim that the condoms burst. When we investigated the complaints it turned out the condoms are porous,” - a sexual health worker explains why some 1.35 million prophylactics had to be recalled in Africa on Monday.
  • Week in quotes

    "Chonaic mé ar an teilifís aréir go raibh an Taoiseach agus an t-Uachtarán Sarkozy mar buddy-buddy agus chuir sé déistean orm nuair a chonaic mé cé chomh amaideach a bhí an Taoiseach." - Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams scolded the Taoiseach in the Dáil for his friendly banter with French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the EU summit in Brussels.
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    "We must reject the notion of normative citizens being reduced to the status of disaggregated rational utility maximisers in our theories and policies." - If you can figure out what President Michael D Higgins meant in a speech on Friday, please let us know in the comments.
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    “An ordinary business, faced with the problem of having payroll costs that are too high, would not embark on a programme which said people could self-select to go off and retire early.” - Economist Colm McCarthy said that the government's early retirement programme was funded like "a Ponzi scheme".
  • Week in quotes

    "It’s a matter of principle for me. I didn’t break it in the Council and I’m not going to do it here." - Labour TD Eamonn Maloney explains why he is the only member of the Dáil who doesn't claim expenses.
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    "Today you begin to write your own chapters of Ireland’s history. Your story will become Ireland’s story.” - Taoiseach Enda Kenny welcomed Ireland's newest citizens during a ceremony in Dublin on Thursday.
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    "How is it possible for anybody to publish something that is just not true, completely not true and it’s not just misinterpretation, you know, or mistranslation – it’s just a completely different story." - 'Magda', the Polish woman at the centre of a storm over a mistranslated article, was shocked at how her story appeared in the Irish Independent.
  • Week in quotes

    "With all due respect to the Members opposite, I have taken on board the points they have made and addressed them individually... but we are not changing the wording of the statutory instrument." - Junior Minister Sean Sherlock at the end of an 80-minute Dáil debate on the controversial amendment to Ireland's copyright legislation
  • Week in quotes

    “Everything I have told you is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.” - Harry Redknapp insisted he is being honest as he as cross-examined by the prosecution during his tax evasion trial in London.

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