Provinces and municipalities, responsible for things like housing, water and sanitation, routinely underspend their capital budgets.
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This confidence would be more credible if it did not follow an underspend last year.
The underspend is being blamed on firms postponing their investment plans due to the difficult economic climate.
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The Treasury said it was committed to supporting the private sector, but the underspend was not that high.
Many municipalities underspend their investment budget because they have too few qualified people to design and manage projects.
In response, Mr Ennis defended Invest NI's underspend and handing back of money.
The Department is right that an underspend in 2010 helps health spending to rise in real terms through to 2015.
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Labour's narrative was once devastatingly clear: the revenues from a buoyant economy should correct the historic underspend on public services.
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He told delegates in Perth that the country's fossil fuel levy and its underspend could be used to boost jobs and investment in Scotland.
Mr Lansley disputed these figures and said that, because of an earlier underspend, health spending would still rise in real terms despite the higher inflation.
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And this year they're going to underspend by about three-quarters of a billion pounds, seven hundred million pounds, because the system can't take the extra money.
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Americans have continued to overspend on sweets, fats, convenience foods and refined grains, says a report released by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, while we underspend on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
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