Last May the Government told us that significant overruns were not projected and that cutbacks were not being planned. Today we are in crisis. We are paying the price for proving the Minister for Finance wrong. We are condemned to spending cuts across the board. There will be an increase in homelessness because the rent supplement has been capped. There will be longer queues in accident and emergency departments across the country. There are numerous hospital cutbacks. Ill patients must be fed by their relatives in our hospitals. They have lost their dignity as a result of overcrowding.