http://74.125.53.132/translate_c?hl=...yKLr0fGxS2HQhwMember of the parliamentary committee: It is impossible that there will be a supplementary budget for 2009
9/7/2009 - 09:59
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Financial, said committee member in the House of Representatives Atrushi Sami, on Thursday, that it was "impossible" there will be a supplementary budget for 2009, argued that the government has not adopted the idea so far on them.
The Atrushi told (Voices of Iraq) "It is impossible that the Government provide a supplementary budget for various reasons, including the fact that the supplementary budget has always provided for the month of June, but the government did not think so now the order of this budget and therefore will take time with the provinces and ministries for study and preparation" .
Atrushi and the supplementary budget, saying that "you need a month or two at least prepared, and the rise in oil prices did not lead Iraq to fill the deficit in the budget, which is 31%, or recycled funds allocated to previous years may fill part of this deficit, with this can not act this money. "
"The past five months this year, Iraq is not the price of a barrel of oil only from 30 to 40 dollars only, so the increase would fill that as Iraqi expectations on that basis the price of a barrel of oil Fifty dollars in the budget, as well as this, the export of oil did not reach to two million barrels. "
Atrushi He is a member of the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, saying "So I do not expect that there will be an opportunity to issue a supplementary budget, and the House of Representatives does not have the time, however, the end of the month before the start of the month-long vacation, and if not provided through the government budget this month, it should made during the month of September in particular and that he had not left the life of the parliament only three months. "
He pointed out that "even if the ratification of the government and parliament on the budget during these three months, how the ministries will be able to implement projects."
The Atrushi saying, "We do not want in the event of a supplementary budget to be operational budget at the expense of the investment side, so during those three or four months of the provinces can not implement these projects, and the basis of those reasons the government can not provide a supplementary budget."
Atrushi, however, saying that "there is confusion between the budget amendment and the provision of supplementary budget, since there is a request by the Government to amend certain paragraphs in the current general budget of the country, has made three changes to the date of the amendment, including reference to article 45, which defined the powers of the government to issue treasury bonds reference to the House of Representatives. "
He added: "we have studied this matter with the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance and we have to decide not to cancel this article, but to achieve a form that gives an opportunity for the Government to get some transfers and remittances and treasury bonds to facilitate the daily Bajratha to provide liquidity do not exceed ninety days only."
Atrushi added that the second amendment "on the institutions or agencies that do not have legal title, the budget has provided for the abolition of these bodies and to stop the payment of salaries or allowances, the government called for putting an end to this article and its application in the year 2010, and we are on the Finance Committee to reject this proposal."
Explanation of the reason that "this article, we have identified with the political blocs to prevent the government from the establishment of institutions or views have no legal basis, and it is these institutions that the National Security Council had no legal basis, but the number of staff more than the number allocated to it by law in addition to the Directorate of disarmament and the integration of the militias is also has no legal basis. "
He explained that the amendment Alartoshi that the third "special Balt_khasisat for the Office of Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, yes, the Bureau has the right to have the allocations, but this excess PROFILE caused problems in some of the time was that the text of the law can not be disbursed to the Government those allocations."
He added that the government, calling for "the increase in some amounts, including 180 billion dinars, the Ministry of Finance to the disbursement of those institutions that have been the transfer of funds to other destinations such as the Directorate of disarmament and the integration of the militias, in addition to the amounts relating to the election commission for holding the elections and the referendum, therefore, the government wants the amendment only ".