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Greens Criticise McCreevy for Fixing the Books national |
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 Wednesday February 05, 2003 13:36 by Graham Caswell - Green Party caswell at indigo dot ie
 Green Party Press Release Government spending this January has increased by 33% over January 2003. The reason is that Charlie McCreevy wants to hide the massive 2002 increase in spending that got Fianna Fail re-elected. So he 'moved' a lot of 2002 spending into 2003. The Greens want a diferent system of accounting that will stop this kind of book-fixing. The Green Party has accused the Government of failing to adopt an accrual based accounting system for the national accounts following the revelation that Government spending in January has jumped a massive 33% on January 2002 figures. Green Party Finance spokesperson, Dan Boyle T.D., said today, "The huge increase in expenditure for the month of January illustrates once again the Government's failure to adopt an efficient national accounting system . Charlie McCreevy's failure to use an accruals based accounting system for the national accounts allows for the creative movement of spending from one period to another." "This increase puts into perspective the Minister for Finance's supposed achievement in restricting 2002 spending to a 14% increase. It now seems likely that Charlie McCreevy has only offloaded inconvenient spending into another accounting year. This is the politics of deceit," he charged. |
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