Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One gets to a point with this theory of more with less where one runs out of rope eventually. The Minister is clearly minded to shed 10,000 more public servants. I ask him again to give an absolute commitment that the full details will be provided. I am labouring this point because when information was published in respect of, for instance, premium pay and allowances, it was not in any way robust or as comprehensive as one would require in order to be able to have an informed discussion on the topic. I really hope that when the Minister is planning to take such drastic action as to shed 10,000 more jobs in a climate of very high unemployment and when services are stretched to capacity, that at a minimum the Government that proclaims transparency will put up all of the information, including those areas where the Minister finds that, far from a surplus, there is a significant shortfall in numbers.

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