asked the Minister for Finance if the net cost to the Exchequer of the national understanding will exceed the £45 million which it is expected will be received in interest subsidies under the EMS arrangements and, if so, by how much and how it is intended to keep the 1979 budget deficit in line with the amount predicted in the 1979 Budget Statement.
Written Answers. - National Understanding Cost.
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In view of the rejection of the draft national understanding by a special conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on 23 May 1979, the question does not now arise.