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Funding Croke Park savings

Summary

Senator Mooney asks who will bear the proposed €300 million cost arising from the rejected Croke Park agreement, warning against further pressure on frontline services and vulnerable people.

My question to the Leader is this. Where is the money going to come from? Are the doctors, the nurses, the teachers and the front-line services, those on maternity benefits, single parent families and all of those who are vulnerable in society, who are struggling under the yoke of increased taxation, the ones who will have to find this money? Where is the €300 million going to come from? The savings for each Department were already written into the last budget and are included in today's Estimates. The day after the trade union movement rejected Croke Park II, the Government has gone ahead and published the Estimates.

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Paddy Burke An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

The Deputy is way over time.

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I will finish on this point, for which I am grateful to Senator Norris. There is a famous character in a Seán O'Casey play called Mrs. Burgess, who says: "Yous are all nicely shanghaied now!"

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