The Joint Legislative Committee on Ways, Means, Finance, Budget, and Development Planning has officially commenced the Expenditure Hearings of the FY2023 Draft National Budget.
The House Press Bureau says, it followed the revenue hearings recently held behind closed door.
The Expenditure Hearings which is public will witness line ministries and agencies of government provide performance reports of the previous year.
Speaking during the opening ceremony Tuesday, February 9, 2023 the Chairman of the Joint Committee, Honorable Thomas P. Fallah, reminded those in attendance that the Liberian people are eagerly looking forward to the legislature to deliberate on the FY 2023 Proposed Draft National Budget, the second since the country transitioned from a Fiscal Year Budget to a Calendar Year Budget.
According to him, in such a way that will derive outcomes geared towards promoting their wishes and aspirations with the goal of raising their living standards.
“It gives me great pleasure to once again welcome all of you to this familiar forum where we come to perform our constitutional mandate of budget scrutiny and approval”, he said.
He urged his colleagues to remain very resolute in thoroughly scrutinizing the National Instrument justifying the confidence which the sovereign Liberian People have reposed in them.
Meanwhile the joint committee has called on line ministries and agencies to followed and adhere to the updated budget hearing schedule released by the Legislative Budget Office (LBO) so as to expeditiously pass the Country’s National Development envelope.
