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'Not a sausage, not a jot, not a tiddle': The week in quotes

Here’s what was said and who said what this week.

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Those in Ireland remain unheard and in the dark as to why these tragedies were allowed to continue happening for nearly forty years.

Karen Keely, chairperson of OACS Ireland, a group advocating for families whose children have been affected the use of anticonvulsant medication, including sodium valproate, during pregnancy. She was speaking after the publication of a report into harmful side effects from medicines and medical devices.

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I have to brush up on my correct terminology.

The new junior minister with responsibility for drugs, Frank Feighan, after apologising for claiming in a general election radio debate that public officials and people in RTÉ are “snorting cocaine all over the place”.

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Fianna Fail are back. It’s like when you were growing up, Dynasty and Dallas were on television, and then they disappeared for a long time, and then they come back.

Labour leader Alan Kelly on the return of Fianna Fáil to power.

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This is a very serious problem right now and it is advancing across the world extremely rapidly. I am very worried about the next six months.

The World Health Organization’s special envoy on Covid-19, Dr David Nabarro, spoke to RTÉ’s News at One about his fears for the future.

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Young girls cannot aim to be what they cannot see.

Minister Catherine Martin said that the Green Party junior ministerial appointments were a “missed opportunity to promote women”.

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Not a sausage, not a jot, not a tiddle of the Northern Irish Protocol will provide any such impediment to the unfettered access of goods & services between all parts of the UK.

British prime minister Boris Johnson on plans to implement border control posts in Northern Ireland.

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