Peadar Tóibín: “The key issue remains. Ireland is an excessively expensive country for energy. It is bad for families, it is bad for…”

He said a recruitment embargo for administrative staff in the health service would save €250m a year.

We want to introduce dynamic pricing to petrol, diesel, agricultural diesel, and home heating oil. How this will work will be that when petrol and diesel reach €1.90 on international prices, cent per cent, the price of carbon tax will come…

In terms of capital infrastructure spends last year there was about €1.6bn of overspend.

He called for an additional €2.5bn to be spent on defence.