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FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has said “frontline” jobs and services must be protected in next month’s budget and warned that Ireland cannot tax its way back to prosperity.

Mr Kenny said his party believed reform and the “cutting out of waste” was key, adding that Fine Gael broadly agreed with the Government’s target of €4 billion savings. “I think if it comes to a balance between job protection and job losses obviously the protection of frontline jobs and services are critical.”