Mandalawi directs the Finance Committee to expedite the completion of the budget law

Baghdad-INA  
First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, directed the Finance Committee to expedite the completion of the budget law and complete its requirements, while indicating that the next few period will witness the second reading of the draft budget law.
 
Al-Mandalawi's office stated, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, chaired this evening, Sunday, a meeting of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, in the presence of its chairman and members, to discuss the draft federal budget law for the years (2023, 2024, 2025). ”
  "Al-Mandalawi directed the Parliamentary Finance Committee to continue holding continuous meetings in order to expedite the completion of the draft budget law, and to set appropriate and accurate mechanisms to complete its requirements, including the formation of subcommittees, and the preparation of a detailed report on it, indicating that the law will focus on meeting people's demands and increasing allocations for service aspects and investment projects, and activating the private sector.
The first deputy confirmed, according to the statement, the parliament’s keenness to scrutinize all paragraphs of the budget, and that the next few period will witness the inclusion of the second reading of the law on the agenda of the parliament, indicating that the people are waiting for their representatives to quickly complete it and vote on it because it is directly related to their lives.
 The statement continued, "During the meeting, the budget items were discussed, and observations were made about a number of its paragraphs, and the importance of making the necessary transfers, in a way that contributes to increasing the allocations for the development of regions, reducing the deficit rate, and implementing service and strategic projects, especially the lagging ones."