Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

There will be a preliminary identification of various options which will then be examined and costed. These will be the subject of discussion between me and the Minister for Finance and, later in the year, the Cabinet will go through all these options before final decisions are made. The amount of money to be saved by any Department will be decided collectively by the Cabinet in the run-in to the budget. It is early days in the process and I am currently considering the savings to be made in various areas. At this stage there are no specific proposals on exact savings to be made. That is not the way it is done.

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