Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

That is Mr. McCarthy's call. The report also stated that there is an obligation to translate every document into Irish, which is factually incorrect, as the Deputy knows because he was in the House when this issue was being legislated. Mr. McCarthy is entitled to his view and we are entitled to our view. The great thing is that the McCarthy report is only a report. It is the Government that will make the hard decisions, and there will be hard decisions. Anybody who tells me that he can save €4 billion and not make any cuts anywhere is not living in the real world. We have hard decisions to make and we will make them on this side of the House, because it seems to me that they are telling us on one hand to make the cutbacks, and on the other hand, they tell us to make some other cutback but not the one at hand.

The decision to commission the McCarthy report was purposely done so that the Ministers would not write the report. What was the point in bringing in somebody independent-----

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