Developing the ‘strategy’ was outsourced.
““We have to ask why the Government still thinks it’s necessary to pay two external consultant bodies over €70,000 to write this plan,” said Pearse Doherty
“Of even more concern is that the Government has shown itself willing to engage extensively only with certain sections of society in its economic strategising. Those sections include those in the finance sector and business. It has not engaged with the people who have borne the brunt of this crisis.”
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