The mid-year budget review presentation to be read by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has been rescheduled again.
This is the third time there has been a change in the date of the presentation.
Ofori-Atta is now expected to present the mid-year budget review to Parliament on Monday, July 31.
Speaker Alban Bagbin on Tuesday announced that the Finance Minister would engage in an intensive meeting with the MPs on Friday, July 28, 2023, ahead of the rescheduled presentation.
“On Friday, the Minister of Finance will be available to hold an intensive meeting with MPs. This is an agreement
entered into between leadership and the Ministry of Finance as a prelude to the presentation of the midyear review and possibly the supplementary budget on Monday, July 31, 2023.”
“In view of that, I will have to plead with you for us to have an extended sitting today. We have a number of matters before us that we will have to conclude.”
The Speaker also announced that the house will not sit on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, due to the National Development Conference which will require the mandatory presence of Members of Parliament and himself.
“We have a very important national event hosted by our partners in the church and from his excellency to
my good self to the chief justice, the former president, some ministers and all the important authorities in
the country will have to convene to look at a very critical national agenda.”
“In view of that, MPs are compulsorily to be present so we will not sit tomorrow. We will sit on Thursday and on
Friday the Minister of Finance will be available to hold an intensive meeting with MPs.”