Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The choices that had to be made involved making cuts across all different Departments. The choices are not just that we could take in more revenue from a particular group, because that was not going to find us €4 billion. That was not going to make the changes that we needed for the long term. We were faced with a situation where every single Department had to make savings. Within the social welfare budget, there were difficult choices.

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