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14/02/2006
Sinn Fein urge Hain to give more funding to public services
Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Hain has today been urged to put millions of pounds from peace process savings into public services in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein economy spokesperson Mitchel McLaughlin suggested that Mr Hain should release money from the Northern Ireland Office and the Ministry of Defence's budgets following the scaling down of security forces in the wake of the IRA decommissioning last July.
Mr McLaughlin said: "The latest expenditure figures for the NIO and MoD are £1,025 million and £682 million respectively. Peter Hain says he wants to look at the expenditure of all government departments, and while many are suspicious that this is not good news for public services, the logic must be that he also examines the £1.7 billion expenditure in this area.
"The return of the local institutions and progress on demilitarisation would suggest that there is a huge amount of potential in cutting back on the NIO and military spending in order to direct money into frontline public services.
Speaking at Stormont last month, Peter Hain had announced plans for a comprehensive review of how taxpayers' money is spent in Northern Ireland.
He said that the government needed to be smaller in order to be more effective in ensuring that taxpayers' money is spent on the frontline.
The Secretary of State had previously aimed to cut the number of councils, councillors, health trusts, create one health authority and one education authority, and estimated that it could save around £200 million per year.
(EF/SP)
Sinn Fein economy spokesperson Mitchel McLaughlin suggested that Mr Hain should release money from the Northern Ireland Office and the Ministry of Defence's budgets following the scaling down of security forces in the wake of the IRA decommissioning last July.
Mr McLaughlin said: "The latest expenditure figures for the NIO and MoD are £1,025 million and £682 million respectively. Peter Hain says he wants to look at the expenditure of all government departments, and while many are suspicious that this is not good news for public services, the logic must be that he also examines the £1.7 billion expenditure in this area.
"The return of the local institutions and progress on demilitarisation would suggest that there is a huge amount of potential in cutting back on the NIO and military spending in order to direct money into frontline public services.
Speaking at Stormont last month, Peter Hain had announced plans for a comprehensive review of how taxpayers' money is spent in Northern Ireland.
He said that the government needed to be smaller in order to be more effective in ensuring that taxpayers' money is spent on the frontline.
The Secretary of State had previously aimed to cut the number of councils, councillors, health trusts, create one health authority and one education authority, and estimated that it could save around £200 million per year.
(EF/SP)
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