Supplementary budget main agenda for Parlt

SUPPLEMENTARY budget will be the main agenda on the order of business when Parliament resumes on Tuesday at 2pm, acting clerk of Parliament Kala Aufa says.
Aufa told The National that it would be a week’s session of Parliament and the supplementary budget was the money Bill they would introduce and pass the same day.
“They will just bring the supplementary budget in any time when they are ready, introduce it and pass it right away,” he said.
“We have yet to receive any legislative programme for the session on Tuesday but we understand the Leader of Government Business will inform us by Monday.”
Aufa said the Speaker of Parliament Job Pomat would receive Prime Minister James Marape in Manus with the Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika where they would officiate at some events before returning for the Parliament session.
It is understood that Marape and his delegation will be in Manus from Sunday to Tuesday for the opening of a Seventh Day Adventist church and they will also visit the Lombrum Naval Base.
Marape said the supplementary budget sitting on Tuesday should give an indication to the people and the business community where PNG was as far as the economic performance was concerned.
He said revenue-collection was under-performing by almost K1 billion.
Marape, who is expected to be addressing a media breakfast today, said expenditure had blown out by over K1.5 billion so the 2019 budget will not be performing as expected.
Marape said the 2020 budget would be something the Government would have a clear blueprint of to take the country going forward.
He said the 2019 supplementary budget would be about correcting some fallacies and some of the deficiencies of the previous government and to ensure that they got the fundamental macro-economic numbers correct.
Marape said the Government was taking prudent and responsible action to correct what was possibly an under-performance in the economy this year.
He said as the Government corrected the numbers and intended to anchor the budget preparations with clearer with more concrete numbers in 2020 and beyond.