Parliamentary Finance Committee: Council of Ministers will discuss the draft budget next Tuesday

Parliamentary Finance Committee: Council of Ministers will discuss the draft budget next Tuesday 



BAGHDAD / obelisk: confirmed head of the parliamentary finance committee interim Attorney Magda al-Tamimi, on Thursday, said that the Council of Ministers will discuss at its special session scheduled to be held on Saturday, the draft budget law for 2014, likely to be discussed at the regular session of the Council, which will be held on Tuesday 13 October month.

Tamimi said in an interview for "obelisk" "The Ministry of Finance has not been completed so far and the amount of scheduling expenses projected revenues for the remaining months of the current year, despite the effort made ​​by the Minister of Finance Agency together with experts in the circle of the general budget."

She added that "the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers to be held next Saturday will not be allocated to discuss the draft budget law," likely to "be put up after the completion of the required financial tables during the regular session of the Council next Tuesday."

She Tamimi that "the parliamentary Finance Committee in constant contact with the Ministry of Finance on the budget and have all their information, so if the draft law was submitted to the House of Representatives will vote it easily."

The Chairperson of the Finance Committee parliamentary temporary Magda Tamimi has confirmed in a statement for "obelisk", on Wednesday, said that "the Minister of Finance Agency Mohammed Sudani told her that the committee for preparation of schedules budget in 2014 is working to reduce the amount of the deficit to the lowest level it's been canceled a number of doors expenditures that can be dispensed with such allocations hospitality and Alaivadat and unnecessary expenses that do not affect the financial and economic march of the country. "

The delay in approving the budget of the year 2014 because of restored several times by the former House of Representatives did not vote on them, which forced the government to be postponed to the new session of the House of Representatives.

And instructed the Council of Ministers, the end of last September, the Ministry of Finance, to complete figures prudent entitlements from the federal budget projected revenues from the export of oil from the region that are being reviewed by the Council after the Eid al-Adha.

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