Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Government has not cut down. Where are the quangos that have been let go? Where is the removal of duplication and triplication? Why does somebody walk into my office with four brown envelopes from the social welfare office saying that he has filled them in during the last week, giving the same information to the same officer four days in a row after standing for two hours in a queue of 250 people? Surely if the Minister is serious about his efficiencies we have arrived at a point where this information can be transmitted once and is then collated and kept. Why do people have to fill out form after form, which the Department of Social and Family Affairs has posted at a cost of 58 cent each?

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