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Taoiseach warns no sector can be immune to cutbacks
Jul 17th
The wider interests of the country should be the primary consideration and not sectional interests, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said in his first public response to the McCarthy Report from the body known as An Bord Snip Nua.
Speaking to reporters at an Ógra Fianna Fail function in Collins Barracks this morning, Mr Cowen said: “It can’t be just about defending one’s individual patch, it’s about looking at the process in the round and seeing what’s in the interests of the country at this time.”
He said everyone should “critically and carefully read the Report and consider it”, The Report had indicated the scale of the challenges facing the country and he stressed that, “this is a challenge that the country as a whole has to face”.
Opposition parties criticise Bord Snip recommendations
Jul 16th
Opposition parties have given a mixed reaction to the contents of the Bord Snip Nua report, which recommends around €5.3 billion worth of public spending cuts.
Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton broadly welcomed the report, but said it wasn’t perfect.
“The notion that you would seek to charge the most vulnerable people for their medicines is something that will shock people,” Mr Bruton said, in reference to the board’s controversial recommendation to introduce a €5 charge for those previously receiving free prescriptions.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said the report was written by people who have no experience of poverty
His view was echoed by Sinn Fein TD Aengus O’Snodaigh, who said the Government and the author of the report, Colm McCarthy, are out of touch with reality.
Update:
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has appealed to the public to avoid “knee-jerk and defensive reactions” after the publication of today’s report by An Bord Snip Nua.
The report, which lays out recommendation for one of the biggest planned cutbacks in the history of the State, urges 17,300 public sector lay-offs and has already drawn threats of a painful strike by public workers.
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Jul 16th
OUTLINE OF PROPOSALS Get all the full report from An Bord Snip here