Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

The Minister for Finance said in his budget speech that his plan was to introduce a voluntary redundancy scheme across the public service. I hope the HSE scheme will be the start of the process in 2009. I am engaged in ongoing discussions on this issue with Professor Drumm and the chairman. It is not a matter for me to identify who should stay and who should go. That is a matter for those charged with the management of the organisation.

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