Incinerators are a massive budgetary commitment for councils and, while there may be enough waste in the whole system to both burn some waste and meet recycling targets, the building of these plants needs to be approached with caution and perhaps regulated by a national plan.
Having requested a bailout for its suffering banks in June of last year, the Spanish government has been under pressure to stick to its budgetary commitments, even as it faced frequent street protests against a series of spending cuts and tax increases.
The IMF chief Christine Lagarde has talked of an "orderly exit" if Athens's "budgetary commitments are not met".
In terms of Portugal's budgetary commitments, Mr. Cabral added, "when you put it all together, it's clear that things do not add up".
The government of the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has been struggling to meet its budgetary commitments to the euro zone and avoid requiring a Greek-style bailout.
Under pressure to meet budgetary commitments to Spain's European partners, Mr. Rajoy has ordered Spain's regions to tighten their finances.
Where spending cuts should, in principle, help to dampen inflation, European governments, like that of the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, are backtracking on their budgetary commitments.
Since 1999 the Commonwealth has made two major budgetary commitments to rural health: in 2000 (More Doctors-Better Services) and 2004 (Rural Health Strategy) [ 10, 11].
Internal and external stakeholders commented on lack of resources compounding the difficulty of integrating MNDs' policy solutions into the day-to-day delivery of existing programmes, which meant that the issue was stuck in a 'low-priority cycle', 21 with lack of budgetary commitment to support advocacy efforts for higher prioritisation of the issue.
