{Politics: Al-Furates News} The Parliamentary Finance Committee announced, on Saturday, support for measures to implement structural reforms to diversify economic activities in line with the government program.
Committee member Muthanna Al-Samarrai said in a statement that {Euphrates News} received a copy of it: “Based on our legislative and supervisory mission in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, we affirm support for measures aimed at implementing structural reforms aimed at diversifying economic activities in line with the objectives of the government program that we voted on in the Council as an integral part of our vote on the government cabin headed by Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani.”
He also stressed “the priorities, programs and projects adopted in the general budget for the years 2023-2024-2025 and the government procedures followed up by the Finance Committee with the aim of implementing investment projects before approving the budget and completing the requirements of new and continuing projects.”
Al-Samarrai continued, “The committee hosted the general managers of government banks and discussed the role of these banks in the development process and economic sectors such as real estate, industrial, agricultural and the private sector, in addition to holding a series of meetings with the governor of the Central Bank to find ways and practical in providing hard currency for commercial purposes, which is moving at a scientific and professional pace.”
He pointed to “the continuous follow-up with the Ministry of Finance and customs and tax authorities in order to achieve their business and collect revenues efficiently, and focus on the importance of the unified treasury account in collecting revenues and determining the actual balance of spending and managing it in order to achieve the principle of transparency.”
Al-Samarai renewed “his support for the measures taken by the government to achieve growth in the economy and work to improve the Iraqi economy and its repercussions on the development sectors, and efforts to develop investment in the oil and gas sectors,” stressing that “the Finance Committee continues to exercise its regulatory and legislative functions in accordance with technical and professional frameworks and will spare no effort in continuing its support for government programs to reach the implementation of sustainable development projects and goals.”