Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I outlined the reasons for that very clearly and I am sure I will be debating them with the Deputy later on and I believe also on Friday. The full cost of repealing all the FEMPI measures is €2.2 billion.

The challenge for me is that if I consider the issues the Deputy raises regularly with me - the need for housing, for more investment in our health services, bringing more people into frontline roles in our public service - I have to reconcile all of that with the wage and pension costs of supporting those already inside the public services. The additional expenditure required to relinquish that legislation is over €2 billion. Perhaps the Deputy could tell me, and I would appreciate his views on the matter, how I can find that €2 billion-----

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