The budget also committed more money to help the owners of small businesses to buy cars, the unemployed to find jobs and people in the countryside to get health care.
This week, Mr Fox admitted that 87% of next year's budget is already committed to running costs and debt service.
"When you realise that half the budget is already committed to contracts, that means effectively wiping out almost the entire new build programme for the next four years and that will have a tremendous impact on the construction trade in NI, " he warned.
And the chancellor has committed himself, in the green budget, to a code of fiscal purity.
In the 2011 Budget, the government committed to using public expenditure to support households who face problems paying for their water, and households in areas with particularly high water charges.
"The coalition inherited a defence budget that was over-committed, " says Dr Paul Cornish, head of the international security programme at Chatham House.
New Zealand also boasts an independent central bank committed to price stability and a government budget that has been in surplus for the past five years.
The minister insisted that the government was fully committed to sustainability development and that it underpinned the budget.
The government is committed to cut spending sharply in order to reduce its budget deficit, and some economists are concerned that this will undermine the recovery.
Finally, because we're also suffering from a deficit of trust, I am committed to restoring a sense of honesty and accountability to our budget.
The upshot was the change now being enshrined in the 2000 budget: driven by the sudden improvement in the forecasts, both parties committed themselves in the course of just a few months to keeping the non-Social Security part in surplus, as well as the total budget.
The Fed has committed to bond purchases that will pump an additional two trillion dollars into the economy to finance this growing budget gap.
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The current government has said it is committed to upgrading the country's tourism infrastructure, allocating a chuck of money towards the cause in the 2012 budget.
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