Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am all for a growth in tax revenue; the question is where it comes from. Regarding the public service, we had 320,000 public sector workers in 2008. At the end of 2015, there were just under 300,000 public sector workers, just over 20,000 public sector workers are missing when our population has grown by, I think, 270,000. How is it possible to provide quality public services to people given a relatively significant reduction in public service numbers and an increase in the population?