The House of Representatives discussed the Finance Bill 2024, the second session, the first day lasted 15 hours, passing 15 sections, today the discussion on section 16 began, Ministry of DE, the budget was reduced to 5,347 million .
At 9pm on 20 March 2024 at Parliament House in a meeting of the House of Representatives with Mr. Phichet Chuamuangphan The 2nd Vice President of the House of Representatives chaired the meeting. to examine the draft The Budget Spending Act for Fiscal Year 2024 that the Special Committee (Committee) completed examining in Agenda 2.
Entering into the consideration of Section 13 of the budget of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, to which the Committee has reduced the allocation. 21,767,133,300 baht from the original offer 46,448,299,100 baht, that the examination went quickly and smoothly because there were only a few committee members and MPs to discuss it. The assembly voted to approve Article 13 as amended by the Committee.
Then at 9.35pm, entering into consideration of Section 14 of the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, the Committee reduced the budget to 53,879,351,700 baht from the original proposal. 53,933,774,200 baht, with the assembly voting to approve Section 14 according to the amended committee.
Then at 11pm, entering into consideration of Section 15 of the Ministry of Transport’s budget, the Committee reduced the budget to 65,684,327,100 baht from the original proposal. 65,841,438,700 baht
Mr Surachet Praweenwongwut Kao Klai Party deputies reserved an amendment to discuss the Highways Department’s 34.8 million baht budget in the highway network condition assessment project to increase its efficiency. Citing information from the Department of Highways and the Department of Rural Roads, they still have overlapping projects. The project details are the same starting from the price. to the point of being unreliable. The average price is as if it doesn’t exist because we don’t know the real price. and noticed that a large sum of money had been hidden without explanation
Regarding Thakorn Tanthasit, party-list MP The Thai Sang Thai Party discussed the discussion and proposed to cut the budget of 157 million baht to the department which requested more budget than necessary. Or it is not worth using the budget, namely the Department of Highways and the Department of Rural Roads. In the road maintenance project, both departments set an overall budget of 46,339 million baht, with the Highways Department setting a budget of 27,157 million baht to maintain 897 road projects and maintenance of 24 bridges, and the Department of Rural Roads which set a budget of 19,181 million baht to maintain 426 roads, along with Questions arise: Why aren’t laws enforced more strictly against trucks that exceed their weight? To save on route maintenance To use the remaining budget for other projects. such as the digital wallet project He also mentioned the construction of Rama 2 Road for 54 years and addressed Mr. Suriya Jungrungruangkit, Minister of Transport, asking for intervention on 13 construction contracts. Follow the contract that announced that the construction of the road will be completed in 2025. I would like to give it to people as a New Year gift. Before I conclude, I say this from the place called Seven Infinite Road It will become a completely finished road.
Mr. Sanphet Boonyamanee, Songkhla MP, Democratic Party Stand up, discuss and compare the budget allocation of the Ministry of Transport. similar to focus on core development structures Forgot to leave someone behind? Emphasizing the authority of the Department of the Navy in managing river channels. Raising the issue of Khlong Samrong River in Songkhla province affecting the population. and the problem of coastal erosion in both the Gulf of Thailand and the Andamans is becoming increasingly serious. Out of a budget of more than 200,000 million baht, the Department of the Navy was allocated 4,365 million baht, or only 1.9% of the budget, which is contrary to its current mission. and called on the Ministry of Transport to invest in the construction of a port to accommodate cruise ships. And the council meeting approved by majority a resolution approving the committee.
Then Mr Pichet, chair of the meeting I ordered the meeting to close at 11.59pm and scheduled the meeting to continue on March 21 at 9am. On the first day, the meeting lasted approximately 14 and a half hours, with a total of 15 out of 41 sections approved.
On the second day of work we will start with article 16, the budget of the Ministry of Economy and Digital Society, to which the Committee has reduced the budget. 5,347,054,800 baht from the original offer 5,419,139,300 baht
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