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Tue 07 Jul 2008Recruitment ban to loom large in plan for severe cutbacks
THE CABINET will today agree cutbacks that will save €400 million this year, and €1 billion next year to cope with the exchequer's sharply deteriorating fortunes.
Departments and State agencies will be banned from recruiting extra staff, with the strict exception of "the most frontline of frontline staff", sources said last night. Each of the Government's National Development Plan's capital projects are to be re-examined urgently to determine their value in jobs and future competitiveness.
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