Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----as well as very considerable Exchequer allocations, the higher education sector, Deputy McGrath, will be able to maintain services in 2013. Further details of the education measures are set out in the expenditure report and will be announced in detail by the Minister for Education and Skills.

Other Departments

In addition to jobs, social protection, health and education, important measures are being taken in other areas. Savings from agriculture, including from changes to the disease eradication, suckler cow, REPS and early retirement schemes, will yield €89 million.

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