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The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed today, Wednesday, that the total budget for 2024 amounted to about 228 trillion dinars.
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The media office of the Chairman of the Finance Committee said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “The Parliamentary Finance Committee, headed by Atwan Al-Atwani, hosted Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Planning Muhammad Tamim, to discuss ways to overcome obstacles to listing and financing projects, and to discuss the reasons for the delay in sending the 2024 budget schedules.” To the committee.”
The statement added, “After Al-Atwani welcomed the Minister of Planning at the beginning of the meeting, he stressed that the goal of approving the tripartite budget was to give the government flexibility to implement its program.”
Al-Atwani pointed out, “Yesterday, in its meeting with the governors, the committee discussed simplifying the procedures for listing and financing service and strategic projects undertaken by local governments, and therefore today it is reviewing the proposals and proposals of the governors to the Minister of Planning regarding ways to overcome the obstacles to listing and financing projects.”
According to the statement, Al-Atwani directed a question to the Minister of Planning about the reasons for the government’s delay in sending the 2024 budget tables, while the latter replied that the government committee responsible for reviewing and auditing those tables is working to reduce the deficit amounting to 80 trillion dinars “because it is considered a large deficit.”
Al-Atwani stressed, according to the statement, that “the Finance Committee is looking forward to sending the 2024 budget schedules as quickly as possible, because its continued delay has greater negative repercussions on the financing and implementation of projects, in addition to its impact on the productive sectors.”
Al-Atwani stated that “the total budget for 2024 amounted to about 228 trillion dinars.”
In turn, the Minister of Planning, Muhammad Tamim, praised “the great role played by the Parliamentary Finance Committee in monitoring spending, setting priorities, and supporting the executive authority in implementing its government program,” noting that “his ministry relies on an advanced electronic program to fulfill the requirements for listing projects, and that it has come a long way in achieving “With regard to simplifying procedures.”
