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Parliament complained the government ignored its recommendations on the budget
On: Tue 03/01/2012 9:26
Baghdad / long-
held House of Representatives on its eleventh session of the second semester of the year the second legislative, and was a member of the Finance Committee Najiba Najib stressed that today's meeting will see the second reading of the budget of the Federal, criticizing at the same time not to the government's response to the recommendations raised from its first reading .
She said Najib told (long) "may face the House of Representatives today's problem with the quorum and the constant interruption of the Congress coalition in Iraq, and that was a quorum will be a budget at the top of the agenda," she said, "that the Finance Committee meetings were held with some stakeholders to discuss the budget and find the weak points, "noting" that the government did not respond to the recommendations of the parliament, especially after he has first reading in the presence of Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, "and agrees the blocks on the budget said Najib" has not yet been compliance with the blocks on the budget and to reach a formula that satisfies all parties, and there are a series of observations in some Parties may face problems on the day of voting them, "however," One of the most important criticism against the budget to increase the administrative power to the provinces and territories under the Constitution, "and demanded that a member of the Finance Committee the government to send the final accounts to the House of Representatives, explaining "It is difficult that the House of Representatives to work on the budgets of speculative from 2004 until now, thereby hindering the work of the projects directly,"
and she that among the problems that remain unresolved until the moment those between the region and the Centre on the salaries of the Peshmerga. For his part, criticized House Speaker Osama Najafi budget, considering its lack of service projects at the expense of investment is negative, although apart from a significant increase. Osama al-Najafi, during a speech on the occasion of the American withdrawal from the country, delivered in the House, said yesterday that "the federal budget for 2012 was characterized by an increase in operating expenses at the expense of investment expenditures," noting that "the financial allocations are insufficient to meet the need of the service sectors that will improve the links different human development for the better. " The Najafi emphasized that "there is a high priority for social services, education, health, and increase allocations of development of regions and to support civil society organizations to achieve well-being of the largest of the citizen and finding urgent solutions to the roof of a specific time frame is known of the major crises that afflict our people." The Iraqi Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi said in the eighth month of December of last year, in a press conference that the total Iraqi budget for 2012 has reached 117 trillion dinars, indicating that the share of the operational budget for 2012 reached 80 trillion dinars, compared to 37 trillion dinars as a budget investment and, to a deficit of 14 trillion dinars, which represents 10 percent of gross domestic product and 12 percent of the total budget. "
The House voted on the budget for 2011 amounting to some 93 trillion deficit 14 trillion dinars, while the operating expenses 0.64 trillion dinars. while capital expenditures amounted to 29 trillion dinars, based on the rate of 76.5 dollars per barrel of oil at a rate of 2.0002 million barrels a day, including 100 thousand barrels of the Kurdistan region.
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