Lenihan keen to implement Bord Snip measures

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has put his cabinet colleagues on alert that he does not want to wait until December’s budget to implement the recommendations of Bord Snip Nua.

And he said each minister will not be asked what measures in Professor Colm McCarthy’s are avoidable but instead fight to justify any they want to escape the axe.

“I can assure that every issue will be taken to each department and there will be an onus on each department to establish why we should not implement the McCarthy report,” he said.