Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

-----to get €730 million, we would have had to take far more from those. It was very much an effort in trying to prioritise within a social welfare budget where savings had to be made. It was not enough to try to bring in extra revenue from other areas. As anyone knows, we had to bring about structural changes in our expenditure that would last through next year and that can show we have taken the tough decisions. I accept they are tough on people who will experience a cut of €8, €8.30 or €8.50 per week-----