Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Well, they were outlined in the programme itself. But we were consistent in our criticism of the lack of scrutiny from social partnership, in the directions that were given by, for instance, Finance in respect of benchmarking, the lack of scrutiny in terms of major infrastructure projects which overran seriously, and the wastage in public expenditure. So we wanted our tax position to be well focused but to get back to a point where you were going to have growth in your economy, which would create jobs and as a consequence, allow for services to be spread throughout the country, particularly to the most vulnerable. And we've mentioned issues like the disabled or the medical cards or those who were in vulnerable positions.
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