If we are to meet our commitments under the Croke Park agreement, which we have set out to do, it must be on the basis of full implementation of that agreement. It will be critical in terms of redeployment and of looking at all the industrial relations issues which have arisen piecemeal for many years and which will now have to be dealt with in a comprehensive way. We must get more from less. We are not in a position to provide affordable public services on the basis of current structures.

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