Following a meeting with the Parliament Budgets and Final Accounts Committee the minister noted that the differences in opinion would not spoil the relations between the MPs and the ministers. He also stressed MPs’ right to use all constitutional tools such
as grilling.
Referring to the committee meeting on raising the allocations for the Public Authority for Agriculture and Fish Resources (PAAFR) for fodder subsidy, the minister said that members of the committee were acquainted with the government’s mechanism to approve that subsidy. "That mechanism will be approved by the Cabinet", he said. Meanwhile, head of the committee Adnan Abdul-Samad said that they needed more time to study a proposal to allocate additional KD 14 million for supporting the PAAFR.
As for compensating those hit by bird flu, Abdul-Samad said that the government was pushing for the relevant rules from the PAAFR adding that the Authority had estimated compensation at KD 12 million at the time when MPs demanded KD 14 million.
In related news, it seems that political disputes and debates concerning the use of constitutional tools , namely those related to interpolations, is gaining momentum amidst political and public arenas, reported Al-Anbaa. Commenting on this issue, member of the national action bloc, MP Meshari Al-Anjeri noted that interpolations were granted constitutional rights for all MPs. "However, they should be considered as exceptional measures that cannot be used as threats for any reason," stressed Al-Anjeri point
ing out that such use of the constitutional tool would surely have their bad and negative consequences over the performance of the parliament.
An MP is entitled to use all possible means and tools to help monitor the performance of Cabinet members and fight corruption," explained Al-Anjeri warning that sometimes the overuse of grillings hinder the performance of many ministers.
