The Government’s axing another 23-thousand-500 public sector jobs.
It’ll bring the total cut from the peak in 2008 to 37-thouasnd-500.
A Public Service Reform Programme announced this afternoon also sees 48 quangos abolished or merged and 40 decentralisation projects cancelled, including a proposal to bring over 230 decentralised jobs to Donegal Town.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny described the decentralisation programme as one of the previous government’s worst moves………..
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