Al-Kadhimi: We are waiting for the Council of Ministers to vote on the 2024 budget schedules and send them in the coming days, 16 MARCH

 Al-Kadhimi: We are waiting for the Council of Ministers to vote on the 2024 budget schedules and send them in the coming days, 16 MARCH

3/15/2024

Today, Friday, the Parliamentary Finance Committee commented on Finance Minister Taif Sami’s announcement that data related to the 2024 budget schedules would be sent to the Council of Ministers.

Committee member Moeen Al-Kadhimi explained, in a press statement, followed by NRT Arabia, that “the Ministry of Finance sending data on the 2024 budget tables to the Council of Ministers means that its mission has ended and we are waiting for the Council of Ministers to vote on these tables and send them within the next few days.”

Al-Kadhimi added, “The Council of Ministers will speed up sending these tables to the House of Representatives, and we in turn will have access to them, and some amendments may be made to them, if there are any observations, and we cannot view these data, except after they officially arrive from the Council of Ministers.” “After he approves it.”

Last Wednesday, the Minister of Finance, Taif Sami, announced the completion of data related to the 2024 budget tables, the inclusion of texts, and sending them to the Council of Ministers.

 Sami said, “The data related to the 2024 budget tables has been completed, the texts have been included, and they have been sent to the Council of Ministers.” 

She stressed that she "will not launch funding for the salaries of Kurdistan Region employees for the month of March until after resettlement, and I do not disagree with the decision of the Federal Court."

The Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, announced on February 20 that “the government is continuing to scrutinize the schedules for the 2024 budget, as the government carefully confronted the deficit within the 2023 budget.”   LINK