It is time, they say, for finance to repay its debt to society.
Mr Simmonds, cabinet member for finance, said: "For three years, we've managed to keep council tax frozen.
"If we don't address these issues, the message is — don't go to Texas," Bill Hammond, the president of the Texas Association of Business, said of financing for water and roads.
Individual campuses do not petition the state for financing, said Margaret Sullivan, vice president for external affairs and development.
David Nickols, managing director at the consultancy WSP Future Energy said project finance for major renewables projects looked difficult, and planning restrictions were also "major obstacle".
A spokeswoman said the minister for finance had a "constructive" meeting with Michael McGrath, the Fianna Fáil finance spokesman, last evening.
Despite the tightening spigot for loans to developers, builders and economists said financing for home buyers remained plentiful.
Mr. Stringer's haul means that he now has $2.7 million in his coffers, said Catherine Butler, finance director for Stringer 2013.
The government will insist on a national unified budget for 2006, said the finance minister, Anwar ul-Haq Ahady.
But perhaps the biggest environmental turnaround for Villahermosa, in the first phase of the plan, "is a cleaned-up water supply," said Mohammad Tareque, finance secretary for the city.
