Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Mathews made a good point about accountants. I was talking to a young official in my Department who had come back from discussions with a line Department, which I will not mention, highly chuffed because he had been accused of being a bean counter and he regarded that as high praise. We need people who can do the sums and say this is what we can and cannot live with and that it is fanciful to try to live-----