Parliamentary Finance holds the government responsible for stopping spending in the ministries
Parliamentary Finance holds the government responsible for stopping spending in the ministries
2024-04-29 03:52
Shafaq News/ Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Al-Karaawi, held, on Monday, the Iraqi government responsible for the delay in sending the schedules of the federal budget law to the House of Representatives, and for not opening the doors to financial disbursement in ministries and state institutions.
Al-Karaawi told Shafaq News Agency, “The government was very late in sending the budget law schedules to the House of Representatives, which caused a delay in launching the disbursement doors for ministries and state institutions.”
He pointed out that “the government had previously set many dates for sending the budget to the House of Representatives, but it did not send the budget law schedules, and therefore the government bears responsibility.”
Earlier, a member of the Finance Committee, Moeen Al-Kadhimi, confirmed that the reason for the delay in sending the country’s general budget to the House of Representatives is due to the requirements of ministries and unrelated entities, the operational and investment budgets, and the increase in financial allocations for the salaries of employees and retirees, the social protection network, and the ration card, all led to changing the schedules of the budget law.
According to the Parliamentary Finance Committee, “The general budget for the year 2024 amounted to 228 trillion dinars after increasing operational and investment expenditures, and that the expected financial deficit in it is 80 trillion dinars, after the budget in 2023 amounted to 199 trillion dinars.”
At the end of last February, the Parliamentary Finance Committee announced that the Ministry of Finance had completed the schedules for preparing the 2024 budget, and said that the Council of Ministers would approve it last March to be sent to Parliament after that, but it has not been approved yet.
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