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Sat 10 Oct 2008Taoiseach and Ministers must share financial pain
If the Government wants to gain public trust, they need to show the way by cutting their own salaries and perks, writes Stephen Collins
IF HE DOES his job properly, Brian Lenihan will send the country into a state of shock on Tuesday with the severity of the budget. It should be one of those occasions on which the worse it is on the day, the better for the country in the long term. The real question is not how tough the budget will be but whether it will be tough enough.
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