Saturday December 17, 2 / January 2015
[Baghdad-where]
Parliamentary Finance Committee said, she would discuss with the ministers of oil, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, and Defense Khalid al-Obeidi, the possibility of reducing the operational budget that their ministries and modify investment.
He said the Commission's decision Ahmed al-Haj, told all of Iraq [where], "The committee will host a day, and oil ministers, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, and Defense Khalid al-Obeidi, to discuss the possibility of reducing the operating budget and modify some of the investment expenditure."
He added that "to reduce the budget deficit depends on reducing expenses, and the Finance Ministry reduced these expenses," he said, adding that "whenever the deficit reduction is reduced in return the price of oil which leads to increase the deficit again."
He said al-Hajj that "the problem lies down oil prices, which reduced revenue with them, since higher expenses and lower revenues lead to a widening deficit gap."
He pointed out that "the budget until now are based on the price of $ 60 per barrel of oil."
The parliamentary finance committee member of Haitham al-Jubouri, announced today, host committee and the Ministers of Defense Khalid al-Obeidi, oil and Adel Abdul-Mahdi, in order to discuss the reduction of their ministries budget.
He said al-Jubouri's [where] that "the House of Representatives will be directed towards reducing the ministries budget, and will today host the ministers of oil and defense as the two ministries, preparing the most tunnels where the Anfagahma more than 45% of the ministries expenses," he said, adding that "there are seeking to reduce defense budget, without affecting the fighter or military needs. "
The House of Representatives has ended in its meeting on 12 January of this, the second reading of the budget in 2015 after completion of the discussion by the political blocs in several previous sessions while granting Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, the Finance Committee of time an opportunity to submit its final report on the budget and taking into consideration the observations House of Representatives while the Commission continues to hold hearings to host the concerned ministries to discuss the financial budget is carried out.
Parliament is scheduled to hold a hearing on Tuesday Almqubl.anthy 2
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