Al-Tamimi: This is what happened during the parliamentary finance meeting with the government regarding the budget

by **RamblerNash** Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:42 pm

Time: 03/27/2021 20:44:04

{Baghdad: Al Furat News} A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Magda Al-Tamimi, revealed today, Saturday, what happened during the meeting of the Finance Committee with the government regarding the 2021 budget.

Al-Tamimi said in a statement, "The continuation of the meeting of the Finance Committee for a period of eight hours in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Oil, Trade, Planning, Labor and Social Affairs and the Minister of Electricity, as well as the Chairman of the Federal Service Council. The Deputy Minister of Finance and Director General of the Ministry of Commerce also participated in the meeting. She indicated that "among the outcomes of the meeting was an increase in the financial allocations for the ration card by 500 billion dinars in addition to what is in the budget."

Al-Tamimi called for "the necessity to change the mechanism of distributing the ration food basket by adopting the electronic card, which would contribute to eliminating corruption in the ration card file, as well as reduce transportation and storage costs and give the citizen freedom to choose the goods he wants at the time he desires."

Al-Tamimi indicated that she had "called for doubling the salaries of those covered by social care and people with disabilities."

She stressed, according to the statement, "the necessity of monitoring prices in the local markets to control them by activating the supervisory role of the concerned authorities."

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