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Parliamentary committees working to submit a report to the presidency of Representatives on the Law of the infrastructure
On: Saturday 11/08/2012 8:53
Baghdad / range
revealed Services Committee representative on its work with the committees of Finance, Economy and Investment to prepare a report to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives on the bill on the infrastructure provided by the government.
The House of Representatives has reopened in August of last year's bill to the government, after objecting to the value of project amounting to $ 70 billion, forcing the government to reduce it to 37.5 billion dollars.
Committee member Ihsan al-Awadi, according to (Rn) that "three parliamentary committees is the economy, investment and financial services is currently considering a report submit it to the House of Representatives on the Law of the infrastructure provided by the government and has been read in the first reading and again."
He al-Awadi, that "the committee has received all comments members of the House of Representatives regarding the law and will work to include these observations in the context of a report to the House of Representatives to decide the subject. "
and rejected the House of Representatives during its previous session, a bill of infrastructure made by the government at that time to grant investment companies large infrastructure projects worth $ 70 billion, in a postpaid, when many countries of the industrialized world which is undergoing a lot of money.
Under the bill, the implementation of foreign companies, especially Korean, including infrastructure projects, such as schools, hospitals, water projects, method of payment on credit.
at the same time the Committee welcomed the decision of the Council of Ministers the judge to expedite in the legislation of a bill the reconstruction of infrastructure, arguing that the law will ensure the provision of 6000 schools, as well as the establishment of networks of pure water and sewage.
A member of the Committee Riad Ghali told / Baghdadiya News /: "There is significant cooperation between the three authorities, legislative, judicial and executive in the legislation of laws that serve the interests of the citizens directly, "saying the legislation" the law of the reconstruction of the infrastructure of important laws. "
and added that "the delay legislation law, read in the House of Representatives Baqratin due to the large number of debates Parliament, where a large number of them were not aware of the importance of law and its implications for the positive on the lives of Iraqi citizens who will provide him housing and extending networks of pure water and sewer to areas without it until now. " He stressed that this draft law comes in order to promote the economic reality and development of the Iraqi economy and the implementation of service projects and reconstruction projects and infrastructure and that the results of those projects and therefore is to move to economic sectors and stimulate the market and the framing of the way of negotiation and referral of these projects in the framework of transparency and competition between companies and under the supervision of higher government levels, which leaves no room for corruption is likely in small projects and with companies with limited capacity. "
The government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the cabinet stressed to expedite the enactment of a law the reconstruction of infrastructure and service sectors.
The House voted last February on the abolition of Article 36 listed by the government within the budget, public finance, which allow the financing of investment projects in a payment on credit.
The Iraqi government says that the financial allocations within the budgets of the country's annual unable alone to promote infrastructure projects that require large sums of money.
Iraq has suffered from infrastructure dilapidated in all sectors as a result of many years of siege and war during the last two decades of the last century.
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