Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)

I want a debate on this. We need to audit wasted public expenditure at an institutional level in semi-State bodies, quangos and the whole governmental process and an immense level of savings could be achieved. I am prepared, based on my work in my clinic, to document 25 areas of waste I encounter on a regular basis. That is necessary. We cannot talk about reductions in services and intrusions into the freedoms and rights of people until we establish that waste has been removed, that the cuts start at the top and that there is transparency and fairness about the whole process.