Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

The savings we have decided on at present is almost €2 billion in current expenditure for the remainder of 2009. This is across Departments and includes the pension levy. As Members will have seen in today's newspapers, the Department of Defence has played its part. The savings contributed by the Department of Defence to this year's €2 billion, which is all we have discussed, does not include barrack closures.

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