Poor ‘must not bear brunt of putting finances back on track’

POOR sections of society cannot take the brunt of efforts to put the national finances back on track, Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe said yesterday.

Mr O’Keeffe, a former junior agriculture minister, said his objections at a recent Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party meeting were based on the views of constituents and party supporters

relayed to him. He said up to 1 billion which needed to be found to correct the national finances must be delivered by a variety of means.