Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)

I will be very brief. I have waited a long time, but I would like to make my point to the Taoiseach. This may be the last formal occasion on which the Taoiseach will be here before the summer recess. I would, therefore, like to remind him that he will have hard decisions to make in the autumn regarding budgets, tax cuts and cuts in services and he will have to make the choice. I put it to the Taoiseach that there is significant flabbiness and abuse in the public services and if Oireachtas committees had the adequate powers to investigate these, they could be dealt with. For example, in the area of procurement -----

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