Parliamentary Finance continues to study the budget and hosts Sami's spectrum

The Parliamentary Finance Committee announced, on Wednesday, that it will host the Minister of Finance, Taif Sami, next Saturday, stressing the need to limit public expenditures and encourage the private sector in the 2023 budget. And the parliament’s media stated in a statement that “the Finance Committee, headed by Representative Atwan Al-Atwani, held its meeting
to read the articles and provisions of the budget law The Federal General Assembly for the fiscal years 2023-2024-2025, and the formation of its subcommittees to conduct a comprehensive study on it, as it decided to host the Minister of Finance, Taif Sami, next Saturday in this regard.
The committee discussed “the materials that include the issuance of a guarantee for the debt of the contracts concluded, provided that the contracts of the Ministry of Electricity are not in the form of (take or pay), and guarantees of support for the agricultural and industrial sectors to establish projects, in addition to the file for making transfers between loan allocations and changing the beneficiary, and listening to suggestions about it.
The committee read "Chapter Three on limiting the disbursement from the account appropriations for the expenses of employee compensation, service and commodity requirements, capital expenditures, other expenditures, special programs, social care, expenditures of projects approved within the general budget, and revenue generation, in addition to the mechanism for using the amounts approved for the emergency reserve to pay emergency expenses if they occur." , stressing "the necessity of pruning the incoming texts and proposing to add and amend the articles in a way that guarantees the public interest of the country and improves production."
And the committee continued, "by reading the materials that concern stopping appointments within the centrally funded formations, losing and profitable companies, and self-financed bodies, provided that the job grades are deleted within the ranks of the owners, with the exception of the service departments of the Baghdad Municipality, the directorates of Baghdad water and sewage, the municipal institutions of the Ministry of Construction, and the water departments of all governorates."
And she indicated that "vacant positions are kept for the movement of owners for the year 2023, to benefit from them in confirming contracts according to precedence, and those covered by the appointments of the Ministry of Health are excluded according to the Law of Medical Professions, and the Law of Employing First Graduates and Holders of Higher Degrees, and the appointment file is transferred to the Federal Service Council," stressing "The need to pay attention to the private sector to ensure the direction of investment projects and the development of performance."
The statement pointed out that "the Parliamentary Finance Committee is working to review the texts contained in the budget law and the tables included by forming its sub-committees to expedite the completion of its report within a specified period," stressing that "the committee aims to study the items of the general budget so that it includes many different service aspects, This includes analyzing government spending, financial challenges, and the social and economic budget, according to the implementation of the government program.