Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is about new policies for deployment and a whole range of other issues, which have been locked for years and have held up reforms. It is a question not only of dealing with the 2010 issue, but also of dealing with the need for an integrated public service that will be smaller over a period of time. It will have all the flexibility on redeployment that we need in order to effect modern public services as envisaged in the Transforming Public Services document. There is no lack of clarity about it. The position is very simple.

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