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FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has indicated that he will use the 11.9 per cent pay cut private sector workers have already taken as a benchmark for public sector pay cuts, the Sunday Independent has learned.

Mr Lenihan is to outline to his ministerial colleagues his intended expenditure cuts in next month’s Budget at a special cabinet meeting today.

With less than three weeks to go until the Budget, Mr Lenihan and Taoiseach Brian Cowen have again insisted that the €4bn reduction in expenditure must be implemented on December 9.

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