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MPs: Delay in the budget will reflect negatively on the project work
Date: Mon 01/09/2012 8:05
□ Baghdad / economic follow-up range
called on parliamentarians and experts to speed up the need to resolve all political differences to accelerate the adoption of the budget because of financial delays will reflect negatively on strategic projects in the country. They explained that in conversations not release financial allocations to the ministries and provinces
Their time specified will affect the implementation of investment projects important in the country and stop the rotation of the economic wheel.
A member of the Finance Committee Magda Al-Tamimi: The political differences occurring in the country will directly impact on the adoption of the budget, because it needs a quorum at the meeting of the Council of Representatives for the purpose of discussion and give the views of all political blocs by noting that any boycott of the meetings of the House of Representatives will lead to a delay in approval for this year.
and added Al-Tamimi, according to the Agency (news): The delay in approving the budget will impact negatively on the implementation of all strategic projects and investment to the country, especially the process of release of funds take a long time in the originally, in the sense that when voting on the budget then will be approved by the House of Representatives and published in the Official Gazette and will then be launching the financial allocations by the Ministry of Finance.
and called for resolving all political disputes in the country and the need to attend all the political blocs to the House of Representatives for speed up the passage of the budget of public finances, in order to give enough time for the ministries, provinces and stakeholders in the implementation of their investment projects, especially that Iraq has oil wealth should be harnessed to serve the country and the Iraqi citizen.
For its part, excluded member of the Finance Committee Najiba Najib vote on the budget if there should remain as political as it is pointed out that the provinces will be the most affected in the event of delay in approval.
The answer, according to the Agency (news): The political conflicts if it continues in the country will lead to a delay in approving a lot of important laws that the political blocs are representative of the people.
She said Najib to the financial budget for the current year can not be approved without the presence of all the political blocs, because each block has applications you want by placing them in the draft budget to the benefit of its constituents being representatives of their own, hoping to resolve the outstanding political problems in order to serve the people and nation-building.
She Najib: The financial allocations granted of the provinces within the budget of the development of regions will be delayed, which hinders some of the investment projects and generates a problem for the provinces that need these customizations and wait for the adoption of the budget for the implementation of large projects in it.
to that considered by the House of Representatives on inch to the current year budget 2012, is not fair to the provinces, said Ali inch "Alsumaria News", House of Representatives "are all registered their objections to the paragraphs in the budget, related to the governorates, as well as the brothers in the provinces, all have objections and demanding amendments to the measure transfers between paragraphs of the law."
In the meantime, the economic expert contrary goldsmith: The recovery Iraq's economy depends on the stability of the political and security situation in addition to approving the budget, on time and not delayed for any reason.
The jeweler, according to the Agency (news): The delay in the general budget of the investment projects would negatively affect the implementation of service projects and investment in Iraq.
He pointed out that the budget when it is approved, it takes a long time up to three months between the announcement of the budget and the receipt and bids for allocations of Finance.
The jeweler said that the delay in approving the budget affect the project in two ways: First, the delay time and the second to be influential technical project implementation because it would be studied in advance, what leads to the rush in some things and then the project is shallow, is incompatible with the needs of the community the actual.
Earlier, the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation to delay adoption of the budget due to political differences to directly affect the provision of services to citizens.
He said ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi, according to ( Rn), "We hope that this year is better than previous years in the adoption of the budget, but unfortunately the political climate prompted the postponement of adoption of the budget," and expressed the hope that "the beginning of next month's deadline to approve the budget."
Hindawi said that the Ministry of Planning has had approval from the Council of Ministers to extend the exchange of investment budget for the project service list in order to prevent the interruption of such projects due to delay adoption of the budget. "
and ensure the balance of 2012 to activate granting financial loans to citizens for the purposes of housing and farmers without financial benefits which may make them a way to find solutions to real-time for the housing crisis and revitalizing the agricultural sector.
It remains the launch of the funds allocated in the budget needs to approve the House of Representatives on the financial budget, which usually late in taking this step due to the differences on the allocations and exchange.
and expected adoption of the budget release of 59 thousand degrees and careers for the whole ministries and government institutions, which means reducing the rates unemployment in the country.
The government has adopted in its emergency meeting on the fifth of last month's budget in 2012 which amount to 100 billion dollars (about 117 trillion Iraqi dinars) and a deficit of up to $ 13.5 billion (about 17 trillion dinars.)
Iraq announced for mega-projects to build hundreds of housing and promote the production of electricity that the country suffers from interrupted frequently, but it seems that political and security tensions as well as corruption is an obstacle to the implementation of those projects.
Cities need money to build its infrastructure destroyed by years of war, sanctions and violence, and argues the citizens on an ongoing basis the lack of basic services that could not be provided to the successive governments after almost nine years to overthrow the former regime.
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