Welfare spending has to fall - Minister [Irish Times]
- Published: 18 October 2009
Social welfare spending must be reduced and public sector pay must be re-examined, the Minister for Education and Science Batt O'Keeffe told an economic conference in Kenmare, Co Kerry, last night.
Mr O'Keeffe said the next few months would "test our mettle as a nation", but that "the experience of the 1980s shows us that delay makes the problem worse".
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