Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----who are not having any direct pay cuts applied to them. Everybody will make a contribution to reaching the target set here, which is about sorting out the public finances, getting the deficit down to 3% by 2015 and making arrangements that every person in the public sector, from the highest to the latest recruit, would make a contribution towards what is essentially a national challenge.

Nobody underestimates the difficulty that this imposes for anybody, but these talks were the widest, the most detailed and the most targeted.

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