Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Central to that mandate is to rectify the problem in our public finances. I know and understand - as does everyone - the challenge this places on our people and the difficulties that many people find with living up to that challenge, be it in terms of pay reductions or structural changes. These are issues we must address ourselves as a nation because nobody else will deal with it for us. Deputy Ó Caoláin proposes that the teachers, the gardaí, the public servants, county council workers, fire brigade personnel and everybody else can be paid from some phantom fund. If his proposition were to be carried through-----

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