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.

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.

We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.

It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.

What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.

It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.

The Government needs to be honest and straight with people.

I decided early on to be honest and trust people with the truth.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.

I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.

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.

I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.

We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.

Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.

Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.