Wednesday, February 1, 2012 20:06
Confirmed the Knesset Finance Committee that the draft budget of 2012 will not return to the Council of Ministers, at a time when specialists confirmed that the budget will not address most of the problems plaguing the country even after the modification, expecting a large exposure to shocks over the next year.
Member of the Parliamentary Services Committee Ihsan al-Awadi, between "The financial allocations to ministries service within the budget 2012 did not match the volume of work being done by these ministries."
He said that "the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, you get a year less than the budget of all ministries, which have been allocated last year trillion dinars and this year 1.5 trillion dinars, although it needs to 12 trillion dinars, while the Ministry of Construction and Housing has been allocated 778 billion, saluting is not enough These customizations are only for the implementation of 2,500 housing units, and Iraq needs 2.6 million housing units. "
Awadi added, "if Iraq remained on the same allocations of the Ministry of Construction and Housing, it can not end the crisis of housing, but after a thousand years," calling at the same time the government to "allocate more funds to the ministry, to resolve the crisis of housing."
He noted that "the Ministry of Transport has been allocated 700 billion dinars, while the Ministry of Communications allocated 250 billion dinars, in addition to 800 billion dinars for the Municipality of Baghdad." Stressing "the importance of ratification of the infrastructure in the Parliament since the previous session, which will service a lot of problems."
For his part, described as an economic analyst Anton draft of the current budget with CB, confirming that it will not succeed in addressing the problems faced by society and the citizen now.
According to Anton, in a telephone interview, "by the people" with him that "the draft budget, the current conventional and free spirit of creativity, thing fundamental to the financing of the budget is oil, which constitutes more than 92 percent of imports, and so far no diversity of budget resources in terms of industry and customs," and expressed believed that "the budget would be great to shake because of their reliance mainly on oil."
He pointed out that economic expert, "there is no change in the nature of exchange," adding that "the operational aspect has become the major part of modern budgets spent on salaries and privileges of officials and their vehicles."
The Anton that "the investment side represents the rate of 35 percent and 65 percent the proportion of operational, this ratio in favor of the investment is not sufficient because we stand before the difficult tasks to restore infrastructure and development sectors, industrial, agricultural and electricity, reduce unemployment and poverty," he said, adding that "if it does not increase the percentage investment, it would be difficult to address these problems. "
"If we did not find another formula Ktnoaa sources of income and the use of amounts of oil surplus for the development of other sectors such as industry, agriculture and electricity for the development of budget resources, it is very difficult to solve the budget the current problem of Iraq's economy." And "The Parliament will be amended on the budget," was going to say that "The budget is now subject to the interactions of political more than economic need, the Finance Committee need to consult an experienced and competent to formulate the budget carefully to suit the needs of home and community." the Finance Committee in turn, confirmed that the draft budget would not respond to the Council of Ministers. said committee member Najiba Najib that he "will not be re-draft of the budget to the Council of Ministers because it is long overdue, and we need to speed up the approval, "stating that" We as members of the Finance Committee intensify our action to address these observations and the budget will be a way that serves the people and approved by all the political blocs. " And criticism of the claw's operating budget compared Balastosmara, said Najiba for "by the people" that "this money will be spent without achieving operational and imports to remember either the investment is working to reduce the rate of unemployment and contribute to building Amari."
The MP added that "there is a committee of Parliament to consider the pensions of civil uniform and so far the committee has not completed its work."
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