Lenihan presents 2009 Revised Estimates for Public Services to Dáil; Bruton says “archaic system of budgeting” does not have “a single target”
Apr 24th, 2009 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
The Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, T.D., presented the 2009 Revised Estimates for Public Services, to Dáil Éireann on Thursday. He said the Revised Estimates confirm and give a fuller, more detailed breakdown of spending by each department and vote of the allocations announced in the Supplementary Budget. Fine Gael finance spokesman Richard Bruton said last night, that the Budget was “not fit for running a corner shop” and the Government was “still relying on an absolutely arcane and archaic system of budgeting” and the book of estimates did not have “a single target.”