Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I move:

That Dáil Éireann,

—notes with serious concern the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General for 2004 which provided yet further evidence of wasteful overspending on a range of public projects as well as the ongoing recurrence of serious tax evasion;

—deplores the incompetence, mismanagement and failure to ensure that taxpayers get value for money, highlighted in the report, that has become the hallmark of this Government; and

—calls on the Government to bring forward proposals to improve the system of public expenditure decision making, to get better value for taxpayers money and to tackle the ongoing waste of public money.

I wish to share time with Deputies Bruton, Deasy and Shortall.

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