Labour Party minister Brendan Howlin has declared that he wants all departments to come to him with suggestions for up to 20% cuts across the board. This is over 10 Billion euro worth of austerity on top of the 3.6 Billion in cuts already set aside for us in the December budget.

In the past year we have suffered the closure of so many hospitals, the sacking of special needs teachers, welfare cuts, wage cuts.

The promises from this government and the last that we would soon see an export led recovery are nothing but fanciful dreams.

We need to get everyone to the Dail for the Enough protest on Sept 14th. It's time to stop this madness.