Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If Deputy Donnelly or any other Deputies want to bring forward suggestions about identifying waste, they will have a ready ear in my Department. I have set up a reform and delivery office. We have set out a radical waste elimination process to amalgamate, eliminate waste and have shared services. We are driving that agenda. I would be happy to give the Deputy chapter and verse on it. The notion that we cannot do anything else until we eliminate waste, is a nice convenient little cop-out.

The other notion of pushing people into poverty because we take a reasonable contribution from people earning over €65,000 is ludicrous.

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