Call to cut cross-border investment; GOVERNMENT.Byline: STEVEN MCCAFFERY THE Assembly and the Dail should cut the money being invested in cross-border projects and reinvest it in public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. , the DUP DUP (in Northern Ireland) Democratic Unionist Party said yesterday. The party welcomed suggestions that economic pressure in the Republic might force the Irish Government to rethink elements of cross-border investment. DUP representative Simon Hamilton Simon Hamilton MLA is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member for Strangford. said he believed money spent on what he called "northsouthery" could be better put towards other projects. Ministers from Belfast and Dublin met earlier this month for a sitting of the North-South Ministerial Council. Taoiseach Brian Cowen told First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness that he remained committed to continue to fund the Irish government share of dual carriageways. CAPTION(S): FUNDING Brian Cowen |
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