Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I made the general point that if we are to have a debate on these issues we should at least have some consistency of approach. We all recognise that budgets are finite and we need to find more efficiencies. Despite the reduction in budget of 3% this year over last year, activity levels and service plan levels are higher this year. This indicates that-----

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