{"id":774,"date":"2019-06-13T14:34:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/wake-up-call-for-fine-gael-with-passing-of-socdems-dail-motion-for-urgent-action-on-public-spending\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:02:44","slug":"wake-up-call-for-fine-gael-with-passing-of-socdems-dail-motion-for-urgent-action-on-public-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/wake-up-call-for-fine-gael-with-passing-of-socdems-dail-motion-for-urgent-action-on-public-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake up call for Fine Gael for urgent action on public spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #666666; cursor: text; font-family: 'Open Sans',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">The Social Democrats welcome the passing in the D\u00e1il today of its motion calling on the government to get to grips with the public finances and deliver meaningful action on public spending and investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"et-pullquote\">\n<p>\u201cThe government needs to do as this D\u00e1il motion says and provide full details about exactly which projects earmarked under the National Development Plan will be delayed or cancelled due to a lack of funding as a result of Fine Gael\u2019s spectacular failure to prudently manage the public finances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Social Democrats welcome the passing in the D\u00e1il today of its motion calling on the government to get to grips with the public finances and deliver meaningful action on public spending and investment.<\/p>\n<p>The private members\u2019 motion to revise allocations for projects in the National Development Plan passed with 79 votes in favour.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the support of the D\u00e1il, which declared a climate and diversity emergency a month ago, party co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passage of the Social Democrats\u2019 motion with strong support from other parties must be a wakeup call for the Fine Gael government to get to grips with the public finances and also to respond effectively and fairly to the accelerating impacts of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur motion calls on the government to urgently revise both the National Development Plan and the National Planning Framework to properly reflect the real capacity of the state to invest in capital projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all the more pressing in light of the massive capital spend overruns identified by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council this week in its scathing report to government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe estimated cost of the National Children&#8217;s Hospital has doubled in six years and is now heading towards \u20ac2bn, while the cost for the National Broadband plan has shot up by 500%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government needs to do as this D\u00e1il motion says and provide full details about exactly which projects earmarked under the National Development Plan will be delayed or cancelled due to a lack of funding as a result of Fine Gael\u2019s spectacular failure to prudently manage the public finances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>13th June 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Democrats welcome the passing in the D\u00e1il today of its motion calling on the government to get to grips with the public finances and deliver meaningful action on public spending and investment. \u201cThe government needs to do as this D\u00e1il motion says and provide full details about exactly which projects earmarked under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catherine-murphy","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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