Cowen urges careful and critical analysis
He said social welfare cuts would have to be considered along with the 17,300 public sector redundancies suggested by Professor Colm McCarthy’s group.
But Mr Cowen said the electorate must realise the scale of the problem and the range of cuts Government has to reflect on in order to find €4 billion worth of savings in December’s budget. This included trade unions who he said remained part of a revised social partnership process which had begun in January despite threats of crippling industrial unrest.
