Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I am not suggesting that the decisions made in the budget be reversed. The Taoiseach said the Government had no wish to see further cuts in public pay, but he is in a position to deliver on that. He knows as well as I do the pressure that thousands of public servants are under in managing from week to week while paying mortgages, bills for their children's education and all the other costs that arise in normal life. Somebody said to me the other day that a loss by 300 teachers of €3,000 apiece is the equivalent of one pay-off to a former public servant. The Government is in a position to tell public service workers that it wishes to consider the immense savings that can be made across all Departments in public procurement, how best to use the resources we have, and the question of quangos-----

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