Seanad debates

Wednesday, 3 December 2003

Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion.

 

He will lose marks when I see what happens with public spending. Public spending is still high and infrastructure costs and other areas such as benchmarking have not been tackled. The proper provision for economic growth is in infrastructure development. However, the Minister admits that we failed to provide properly for infrastructure and that it will cripple economic growth if we do not get it right. The question is not so much what is spent but how. There is no tradition of cost benefit analysis on how we spend public money. The Minister referred to infrastructure investment but action will speak far louder than words. I am not giving him good marks for the long-life of the cake and I am more concerned about the food safety aspect of it.

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