Countless jobs lost in the public service

ADDING to the destructive attempts by a variety of vested interests to divide and rule Irish society by driving a wedge between private and public sectors, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan stated in his budget speech that there had been no redundancies in the public service.

This is incorrect.

Countless numbers of public sector employees on full-time and part-time temporary contracts have been driven off the payroll in recent months and made compulsorily redundant.