Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That party needs to get a lot more thinking caps because what the Deputy is proposing would be the ruination of this country. As I told Deputy Martin, the Government will now consider the outcome of the ballot as announced by the LRC. We will consider the truth of the bottom line expressed repeatedly by Government, particularly by the Minister, Deputy Howlin, whom we absolutely support in this, of achieving €300 million of extra savings from within payroll this year, amounting to €1 billion by 2015. That is absolutely necessary for the economic salvation and development of our country as we retrieve our economic sovereignty, improve the public finances, run systems efficiently and provide jobs for our people. In addition, it is necessary to protect and develop the front-line services to which Deputy McDonald referred, in respect of which we are borrowing in excess of €1 billion every month at the moment.

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