Dan Boyle (Green Party)

These 5,000 people would save €250 million, according to Fine Gael, and this is where we are going wrong in our economics. The €250 million is based on the presumption that the 5,000 people are earning an average of €50,000 each. What about redundancy payments, pension payments and unemployment payments? That is no saving at all. How is it saved in the first year when we need to repair our public expenditure? This is a danger in some of the Opposition approaches. The Opposition believes there are easy fixes and populist measures that can be announced to give people the impression that the Opposition can solve this situation without difficulty, without pain and without any effect on people who live in this country. It will not be done like that, it will not happen.