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Finance Committee: budget 2012 close to the level of ambition, despite the observations
25/02/2012
Saw the need to move to balance «zero»
Baghdad, Omar Abdel-Latif
saw the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives that the general budget for the year 2012 passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening, close to the level of ambition, despite the notes thereon, are called upon to balance the need to move to zero.
said committee member Dr. Magda Abdel-Latif al-Tamimi, told the "morning": that "Iraq is currently employed on the budget items, calling for the need to move to balance zero, which will be better for Iraq."
It showed that "the budget Zero meant to allocations where starting from scratch, "describing rotate assignments in force at the moment b (heresy), where there is no budget thing as the allocation round."
also confirmed al-Tamimi, "The allocations carried forward contributed in reducing the rates of implementation, whether ministries or departments not related to the Ministry and the provinces" , stressing that all these bodies and is confident that the funds will be recycled, so it's better to be a budget-zero in order to go amounts without recycling to any party not implement their projects.
said Tamimi said "this year's budget included some paragraphs that were not relevant to balance, but we saw necessary, striking an example of Article 23 and how to behave plenty of Finance which is supposed not to be placed in the budget, "adding that the issue of so-called budget supplemental is unscientific, because the budget is one start with the beginning of the year and ending with a close, alarm at the same time that excess of the amounts should go to the state treasury to go to investment projects in the following year, as well as a lot of paragraphs that are not related to the budget as a treatment issue of retirees and the municipal councils and how to behave with the structure of banking for the benefits and others.
Article 23 of the Budget Law: "The Council of Ministers submit a supplemental budget to the House of Representatives, and if you can not bit the House bill during a period of thirty days from the receipt of the draft law Vlcil Minister, adding allocations to the federal budget in accordance with paragraph II of this article. "
as indicated Tamimi said the Finance Committee was forced to install the paragraphs of the half- Iraqi people and the disadvantaged of these customizations large to be allocated to ministries without seeing something on the ground, after being presented the Liberal block a proposal to allocate part of the oil revenues to the Iraqi people in cash to help him to live, pointing out that paragraph (f) of Article II of the budget bill included text emphasizes the allocation of 25 percent of surplus oil revenues for the year 2012 to distribute cash to the Iraqi people, indicating that this ratio depends on the amount of abundance occurring from oil revenues. Tamimi showed that last year when a lot of abundance of Finance, noting that it will provide a study of those abundance and how it was during the last year and where was routed, noting that the Ministry of Finance had responded verbally earlier on this subject as directed abundance at the time the contracts of the Ministry of Electricity and the increase that occurred in the salaries of the internal security forces and the allocation of the profession of teachers and teachers, however, Tamimi confirmed The abundance was more than these amounts, so Fsnstvsr about where he went the remainder of these amounts.
member of the Finance Committee drew attention also to the subject (opening balances), which had previously provided to the Minister of Finance a letter on these assets and how much total in all banks of the State and by which they can put the budget properly because it can not establish a budget based on guesses, as well as the statements of financial positions of banks, government, and determine the size of government deposits in banks and how they are disposed of, and the size of loan and to whom was given, confirming that this information will allow us to find out how the amounts held by the state and how routed in the right direction which is investment.
also touched Tamimi in her prolonged with the "morning" to the pros which are contained in Budget 2012 that supported the slides oppressed and disadvantaged groups of the Iraqi people by supporting the strategy of poverty alleviation and increased salaries and the preparation of citizens covered by a network of social protection and welfare service women in line with inflation made in commodity prices, and the allocation of 100 billion dinars advance for students of universities and institutes, and 95 billion dinars to support the Housing Fund to alleviate the housing crisis by giving citizens a loan without interest, in addition to allocations for patients with cancer and thalassemia, where the Commission has been able to cover the deficit sum of the allocations of medications these diseases and of 40 percent with a subsidy of retirees who have reached their salaries less than 400 thousand dinars through the allocation of batch of 600 thousand dinars to be received by 100 thousand dinars every two months, and this subsidy is considered temporary until the amendment of the law of pensions.
shows the member Finance Committee Deputy Secretary Hadi said "this year's budget has taken a two-way first: It is seriously considering some interest classes deprived of the Iraqi people by increasing the allocations of the social welfare network and the widows and care for women and advance students of universities and institutes and support pensioners and install the contractors and as a decade earlier service to them and the development of grades and functional, while the second is is to support private sector development, investment and give the powers of the more conservative and local governments and the payment plans of regional development increased by 170 percent from last year.
Article 18 of the budget bill on the following: "Priority is given to install the contracts exception to the age requirement for contractors In the past years, with the calculation of the contract period the previous service for the purposes of retirement for all all confirmed on the permanent staffing after 9/4/2003. suspended recruitment contracts for this year as well as stop the renewal of a daily, who started hiring after the date of ratification of the budget, except contracts for new investment projects . "
He Hadi "morning" the hope that be this year's budget catalyst for the advancement of the economy and reduce the class differences between the Iraqi people through the allocation of funds to them from oil imports.
He Hadi that this year's budget has reached a stage close to the level of ambition, and expected preparing budgets in the coming years rise to the level of ambition of the peace upward Artekaya Iraq day after day and the stages of preparation, which starts from July every year, through ongoing discussions between the Ministry of Finance, Parliament and the economists at the Central Bank and consultants at the World Bank and civil society organizations.
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