Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

In addition to spelling out how it would meet this Government's fiscal targets, it should go further and spell out how it would meet its own far more onerous targets, an additional €300 million in cuts. The leader of my party, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, went on national television before the last election to say we would implement the cuts and this is what we did in the budget. There is no dishonesty there.

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