QUOTES OF THE WEEK

I hope this inquiry [the separate State commission of investigation launched by the Government earlier this year] gets to the very bottom of both this foster home and who went through it. We want to know who those people were. The day you blame a system and walk away from it is over in Ireland. Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness said the people responsible must be named in the wake of the €6.3m settlement from the HSE to abuse survivor ‘Grace’.

I felt I was running for my life... I just legged it as fast I could. I don’t know how I got the energy. I was very stiff and cold when I got out of the car. Former Tanaiste Joan Burton giving evidence at the Jobstown false imprisonment trial.

I can’t remain a member of a board which is so blind to the consequences of its decision to transfer sole ownership of the hospital to the religious Sisters of Charity and so deaf to the concerns of the public which it serves. Dr Peter Boylan resigns from the board of NMH over the proposed St Vincent’s move.

I make absolutely no apology for making a very significant investment in the healthcare of children. Health Minister Simon Harris refuses to be drawn on the spiralling cost of the new children’s hospital, which has a reported price tag of €1bn. There could hardly be a clearer threat to world peace more demanding of a unified response than the activities of one member of the UN, North Korea, breaking its treaty obligations, ignoring the will of this council, and making blood-curdling threats to inflict grievous harm on peoples of other countries. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

Winding down at 53? Rubbish! I’m just getting started. TV chef Andi Oliver.

We will, of course, do everything to minimise possible negative effects of Brexit for our citizens. In return we are, of course, prepared to make British citizens in Germany and other EU states a fair offer. German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

I think there’s this way where technology can dehumanise and it’s like they are saying something about someone who isn’t there. But I am there and I am real so I have to create some distance. Retaining your sanity in this industry is everything, so I care about it a lot. Harry Potter actress Emma Watson on why she avoids social media comments.

If you want to know how to speak Shakespeare, Sir John Gielgud and Frank Sinatra will teach you. British actress Judi Dench.

It’s like walking with the stars again. Veteran US astronaut Buzz Aldrin on meeting actor George Clooney.