Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Dr. Conefrey instanced the health budget and the way we could squeeze for expenditure efficiencies. As he said what I was thinking does he not think we have tried to do that. His health efficiencies are somebody else's essential service. I could find efficiencies in academia that would be holy grails to academics. That may capture the constraints we have as public representatives in trying to represent citizens who have had eight years of very tough austerity cuts to services and higher tax bills, if they are lucky enough to be in employment, yet the council wants to put the brakes on us trying to bring people with us. Was Professor McHale ever able to square that circle between the role played by IFAC and the role played by public representatives during his time or is his mandate so precise that this circle will never be squared?