The approval of funds related to filling of positions in state agencies, as well as the approval of governmental amendments to the 2023 State Budget, was called upon to discuss today by the Parliamentary Finance Committee, at its last meeting before the plenary session to vote on the Annual Budget, the last before the dissolution of Parliament in view of presidential elections.
At the meeting, a request from the Ministry of Justice to release €100,000 of funds for tendering for the purchase of services for the operation of a childcare shelter in breach of the law was presented before the Committee. As the President of the Committee, Christiana Erotokritou, explained, according to the law, the responsibility for the custody of these children lies with the state, which must entrust it to specially trained prison guards.
All members of the Committee were in favour, with the exception of AKEL, on whose behalf MP Aristos Damianou said that he was not convinced that the place where the custody of the children will be held should not be privatised. "Because there is a photographic regulation", he said, regarding the company to which the project will be awarded, he was against it.
AKEL's objection was also conveyed by Mr Damianou regarding the Paphos Municipality's request for the release of a Municipal Engineer's post at scale A14. In his statement, he pointed out that other municipalities have similar requests, which were not presented before the Parliament, contrary to the request of the Paphos Municipality.
The Committee also approved the proposal to exempt from the ban on filling vacancies an A11 post for the Road Transport Department of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, as well as a post for the Urban Planning and Housing Department of the Ministry of Interior.
The Committee members were concerned about the amendments to the State Budget presented by the Ministry of Finance, as far as the salaries of judges are concerned, due to the fact that the bill on the functioning of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Constitutional Court is still pending. The Committee reserved one more meeting on the matter, following the passage of the bill at tomorrow's plenary session.
DPA MP Alekos Tryfonidis, in his intervention, reiterated questions that had been submitted in a previous session to the representatives of the Ministry of Finance, regarding funds for the construction of a heliport in Solea, for the promotions of 19 non-commissioned officers of the Ministry of Defence, for increases in the salaries of women SYOP, and for non-commissioned officer positions, which had not been answered.
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