Vice: New austerity eliminates 26 thousand degrees and careers and ministries budget cut 30%

01/11/2015 20:03



BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah

Finance Committee is preparing in the House of Representatives for further austerity measures, which include reducing the investment budgets of all ministries and by up to 30% after falling world oil prices to $ 40 per barrel, "as the austerity operations written off nearly 26 thousand degrees and careers of the share of the Ministries of Defense The interior, which will provide funds estimated half billion dollars a month to the state treasury.

At a time when the government granted the Finance Committee the right to a reduction in the federal budget, confirmed that it would end the second reading of the budget bill at a hearing Monday and ready to be submitted to a vote next week.

He says a member of the Finance Committee Alsjeri in an interview with the "long" that "time does not allow Parliament to re-draft federal budget law for 2015 to the government after the significant decline that has occurred in world oil prices," adding that the committee will take into account the implications of this decline in oil prices. " .

Attention Alsjeri, that "the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives decided to reduce the budgets of all government ministries in equal proportions without compromising operational budgets that include staff salaries," explaining that the investment budgets of ministries allow these cuts after falling oil prices to $ 40. "

He explains that "this reduction will be 30% of all the ministries allocated to each investment budgets, so as not to effect these procedures on the ongoing investment projects and the salaries of staff of the Iraqi state."

Refers MP Salahuddin province, that "these measures resorted to by the Finance Committee recently will provide us with funds to meet the impact of falling oil prices and the security implications of the large deficit," pointing out that oil prices will begin to rise proportionately in the next few months. "

It notes that "the reduction procedures that will occur on the budget bill will also include reducing the grades specific to the ministries of defense, interior and the possibility of benefit and compensation of vacancies aliens and dropouts in the security services to meet the reduction procedures."

He points out that "the Finance Committee trimmed nearly 16 thousand degrees and careers of the quota to the Ministry of Defence and 10 thousand degrees and careers of the share of the Interior Ministry," adding that the sum of this reduction that has occurred on these grades up to 26 thousand degrees and careers of defense and interior. "

And asserts that "the reduction of these grades actions will provide us with funds estimated half a billion dollars a month," expected completion of these amendments and procedures within a week, in order to provide the budget bill to a vote. "

But the other member of the Finance Committee Jabbar Abdul Khaliq, says that "the Finance Committee has not taken a final decision on the reduction of investment budgets," pointing out that there are proposals being studied. "

He adds Abdul Khaliq in a telephone conversation with the "long" that "the implementation of the reduction by the Finance Committee parliamentary procedure requires the presence of the competent authorities within the Commission and then resolved by a vote in the Committee."

National Alliance MP reveals that "the government of the Finance Committee gave the green light in a reduction to the budget bill without compromising the budget of the Ministry of Health and the ration card and the salaries of the staff," stressing that the Deputy Prime Minister, Bahaa al-Araji, carrying the message of the Prime Minister to the Finance Committee. "

And asserts that "the Committee agreed on spending cuts and not returning the budget bill to the government to stay with the speculative price of oil in the budget to $ 60 a barrel."

He points out that "the House of Representatives would end the second reading of the budget bill in the session on Monday and get ready to be submitted to a vote in the next week, pointing out that the Commission will determine the institutions covered by the procedures reduction, modification or carry through a detailed report about it."

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