Parliamentary Finance announces hosting two ministers to discuss the budget: We will pass it before the end of the legislative term
Parliamentary Finance announces hosting two ministers to discuss the budget: We will pass it before the end of the legislative term
2024-05-21 06:43
Shafaq News/ The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, confirmed on Tuesday that the committee is awaiting the budget schedules to discuss with the Ministers of Finance and Planning, indicating that voting on them will take place before the end of the legislative term of Parliament.
Al-Atwani told Shafaq News Agency, “The budget tables for the year 2024 arrived today at the House of Representatives building and are currently in the office of the Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, and will be discussed as soon as they reach the Finance Committee.”
He added, “The Parliamentary Finance Committee will study and discuss the budget schedules in detail with the concerned authorities by hosting them in the committee,” announcing the hosting of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Planning to discuss the budget schedules, in the coming days.
Al-Atwani indicated, “The Parliamentary Finance Committee intends to discuss the budget schedules, complete the first and second reading, and vote on them before the end of the legislative term of the House of Representatives.”
The 2024 budget, according to what Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani announced yesterday, Sunday, amounts to 211 trillion dinars, and employee salaries for the year 2024 amount to 62 trillion dinars, while the 2023 budget amounted to 199 trillion dinars and employee salaries amounted to 59 trillion dinars.
According to Al-Sudani, the revenues of the 2024 budget are estimated at “144 trillion and 336 billion dinars, while expenditures amount to 210 trillion and 936 billion dinars, while the deficit is 63 trillion and 599 billion dinars.”
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