Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
5:35 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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We have already reduced pensions from peak to trough to a low of €14.1 billion last year. We have set out that we need to save an additional €1 billion by 2016 during the entire term of the Haddington Road process that was started last year. I intend using some of the reform dividend to put something back into some front-line public services, such as the ones I have spoken about.