Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

One of the decisions the Government has taken on expenditure control is the cash limiting of demand-led schemes. There are many businesses which face legislative obligations which must discharge the expenditure to perform their legislative obligations out of their own resources. The State rightly, but generously, provided for a contribution towards this and the reality is the sums expended have been way out of proportion to the originally envisaged sum.

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