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Thu 07 Jul 2009Over 17,000 job cuts proposed
The 'Bord Snip' report has recommended axing 17,358 jobs across the public sector, including eliminating some 6,000 jobs in the Department of Health and Children and 7,000 in the Department of Education.
Speaking this afternoon, UCD economist Dr Colm McCarthy, who produced the report, said he believed the jobs cuts were “feasible” but was not sure how they would be achieved.
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