Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, set out on behalf of the Government the requirement to achieve €300 million in savings this year. He has issued detailed statements on the matter and the Government will now consider the implications of the ballot and make decisions in respect of achieving the savings. The legislation on media mergers to which Deputy Martin refers is the Consumer and Competition Bill. A great deal of work has been done on the Bill, which will be published this session. In the case of 17 of the 25 or 26 Bills on the A list a great deal of work was carried over in the previous session and the Bills will all come through over the course of the next 15 weeks.

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