SPENDING on the planned British-Irish Council conference and the airport firefighter dispute inquiry would be scrapped in favour of social projects under proposed amendments to the Policy Council’s plans.

Deputy Matt Fallaize (pictured) is behind the move that could also see money available but not earmarked for anything also spent.

Other deputies are also understood to be working on a composite amendment to the council’s Strategic Plan, which recommends how more than £1.6m. should be spent next year.

Deputy Fallaize said that a requete being pursued by Deputy Jan Kuttelwascher to ditch the tribunal of inquiry into the airport firefighter dispute was not necessary, given the other amendments coming forward.

He said the Kuttelwascher move did not address where the budget saving of £250,000 would go if the firefighter review did not happen.

‘The whole purpose of the strategic plan debate is to allocate the money that’s available though the spending review in the first year to new service developments,’ said Deputy Fallaize.

‘So the amendments that I’m dealing with would remove things from the recommended priority order and substitute alternatives of the same value.’

Deputy Fallaize would need firstly to succeed with an amendment to get each of the eight areas of spending voted on separately.

It was difficult to justify in the current economic climate the projects he wants removed, he said.