Thanks to confirm vs thank you to confirm

Some examples from the web:

• Well, just needed to confirm. thanks.
• I would like to thank the rapporteur and confirm once again my approval of this important document.
• With these important caveats in mind, I would like to confirm the ELDR's broad support for Mr Schwaiger's work and reiterate our warm thanks to him.
• I thank the Honourable Gentleman for allowing me to confirm that the unemployment figures are down again this month.
• I would like the Commissioner to confirm that he will thank not only those people but also the NGOs working in the field.
• Madam President, I would like to thank the Minister, Mrs Malmström, for everything she has told us, and which I will try to confirm on behalf of the Commission.
• Experience confirms this, since, even if the existing rules permit the diversification of funds, this option has scarcely been applied in practice thanks to the restrictions in force.
• No deaths are needed to confirm the testimonies.
• Empty your DNA to confirm receipt.
• Get a uniform to confirm east perimeter secure.
• Activating thermal imaging to confirm other occupants.
• Ask the station chief from Rabat to confirm the deaths...
• This discussion is to confirm our present situation.
• Poland has provided empirical evidence to confirm this hypothesis.
• I would therefore ask you either to confirm this categorically or, if not, to confirm that measures are taken to investigate the situation.
• I was about to confirm what you two have already deduced.
• I would like you to confirm that for Mr. Hoover.
• I'm calling to confirm whether patient 5679 is still in custody there.
• My husband simply wants to confirm what the men were imprisoned for.
• We're getting security footage to confirm.

Some examples from the web:

• Well, just needed to confirm. thanks.
• I would like to thank the rapporteur and confirm once again my approval of this important document.
• I thank the Honourable Gentleman for allowing me to confirm that the unemployment figures are down again this month.
• I would like the Commissioner to confirm that he will thank not only those people but also the NGOs working in the field.
• Madam President, I would like to thank the Minister, Mrs Malmström, for everything she has told us, and which I will try to confirm on behalf of the Commission.
• With these important caveats in mind, I would like to confirm the ELDR's broad support for Mr Schwaiger's work and reiterate our warm thanks to him.
• I can confirm, and thank you for having asked me about this, that we will use all the most modern means, television in particular, to broadcast our public debates in each country and even across Europe.
• Mr President, firstly I should like to thank you all for a very useful and comprehensive confirms at the same time how difficult it is to reach some sort of consensus on this complex issue.
• Madam President, Commissioner, thank you for your answer, which confirms the statement you made in Brussels.
• 'Thank you all for coming at such short notice, 'but now I can confirm 'that the man who died in last night's traffic accident 'is our prime suspect in the murders 'of Lucy Cooke, Jocelyn Wade and Teresa Adamson.
• I also thank you all for the debate, which shows and confirms that there is a need for the modernisation of the Statues of the Euratom Supply Agency.
• No deaths are needed to confirm the testimonies.
• Empty your DNA to confirm receipt.
• Get a uniform to confirm east perimeter secure.
• Activating thermal imaging to confirm other occupants.
• Ask the station chief from Rabat to confirm the deaths...
• This discussion is to confirm our present situation.
• Poland has provided empirical evidence to confirm this hypothesis.
• And thank you for those lovely thank-you notes you wrote.
• No, "thank you" is just a thank-you.