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Bill: Balancing the budget
Details
Submitted by[?]: Grand National Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change the allocation of funds in the budget. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 3581
Description[?]:
| As an interim measure, we would like to propose modest budget cuts in order to eliminate the budget deficit. Government spending needs to be kept under control. Taoiseach Aled Pritchard MP |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 10,000,000,000 DRA | 3,500,000,000 DRA | 1,000,000,000 DRA |
| Foreign Affairs | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 10,000,000,000 DRA | 10,000,000,000 DRA |
| Internal Affairs | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 60,642,700,000 DRA | 60,000,000,000 DRA |
| Finance | 25,000,000,000 DRA | 8,500,000,000 DRA | 1,000,000,000 DRA |
| Defence | 15,000,000,000 DRA | 55,000,000,000 DRA | 55,000,000,000 DRA |
| Justice | 30,000,000,000 DRA | 32,500,000,000 DRA | 30,000,000,000 DRA |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 70,000,000,000 DRA | 78,000,000,000 DRA | 78,000,000,000 DRA |
| Health and Social Services | 60,000,000,000 DRA | 408,000,000,000 DRA | 408,000,000,000 DRA |
| Education and Culture | 75,000,000,000 DRA | 220,000,000,000 DRA | 220,000,000,000 DRA |
| Science and Technology | 50,000,000,000 DRA | 25,000,000,000 DRA | 20,000,000,000 DRA |
| Food and Agriculture | 60,000,000,000 DRA | 20,600,000,000 DRA | 20,000,000,000 DRA |
| Environment and Tourism | 50,000,000,000 DRA | 20,900,000,000 DRA | 20,000,000,000 DRA |
| Trade and Industry | 60,000,000,000 DRA | 25,640,000,000 DRA | 20,000,000,000 DRA |
| Total | 565,000,000,000 DRA | 968,282,700,000 DRA | 943,000,000,000 DRA |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:35:07, November 22, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Agrarian League | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, It's good to see that someone has learnt moderation and we would give this budget nine out ten marks. The missing tenth sadly is the bizarrely genocidal act against Dranish farmers. We cannot tolerate nor support starving already lowly paid sons of the land. Alberto Trujillo MP DAL Chairman Member for Valdor |
| Date | 00:02:35, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We would be fascinated to hear the DAL's explanation for how a 3% reduction in agricultural subsidies would somehow amount to attempted genocide against Dranish farmers. The real enemies of Dranish agriculture are those, like the DAL, who support the irrational ban on modern GM techniques. Taoiseach Aled Pritchard MP |
| Date | 02:40:30, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Popular Party | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I call on Mr Trujillo to withdraw his insensitive remarks about a "genocidal act against Dranish farmers. Even though the PP does not support any form of agricultural subsidies, this budget still maintains 20billion DRA in agricultural subsidies. How a 600 millionDRA, or 3% reduction in this budget, which could be easily achieved by efficiency savings can be described as "genocidal" is beyond me. Kwan Min-Jung MP PP Leader |
| Date | 04:44:02, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Provisional Government of Dranland | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | The Hon. gentleman [Kwan] will not refer to another Hon. member by their name. However, I second his call for the withdrawal of the comment that this legislation constitutes a "genocidal act". Such a statement is unparliamentary. Gwilym Owens MP Speaker of Parliament |
| Date | 07:09:01, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Agrarian League | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I should have been clearer and said 'economic genocide'. If the Hon. members from the GNP and PP believe in efficiency savings then why exempt the two largest departments? Is it not simple logic that a department twenty times larger than the Agricultural ministry has twenty times the waste? Farmers face incredible challenges yet remain the toughest entrepreneurs in the nation, to deny them even this tiny assistance would be tantamount to another attempted economic genocide - a discriminatory attack on the economic lifestyle of a virtouus people. These two parties tried to abolish farm subsidies so don't pretend to have suddenly found love or benevolence for farmers. Alberto Trujillo MP DAL Chairman Member for Valdor |
| Date | 14:26:53, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, A reduction in agricultural subsidies does not constitute "genocide", nor even "economic genocide". The Honourable Gentleman from the DAL inhabits a world of his own. Taoiseach Aled Pritchard MP |
| Date | 17:05:47, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Agrarian League | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Indeed it is a different world from that the grandees of Iglesia Mayor know. Lush green pastures and hardworking children of the land who keep this nation fed. My question still stands - why efficiency only in the tiny department and not the great ones? Alberto Trujillo MP DAL Chairman Member for Valdor |
| Date | 17:18:28, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Koalisjon for frigjøring | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We have come to realise this budget is unacceptable, the 900 million cuts in environment budget is unacceptable, while we have all that waste in interior and health departments why cut one of the rarest efficient and working department in the cabinet. Kennedy Rousseau MP Deputy Leader of KFF and KFF's presidential candidate |
| Date | 17:25:25, November 23, 2013 CET | From | Koalisjon for frigjøring | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I agree with the Deputy Leader, as the chairman of environmental issue committee of KFF and nominee for Environmental Ministry, I find these cuts irresponsible and reckless. Kensington Rousseau MP Chairman of Environmental Issues Committee of KFF and KFF's nominee for Environmental Ministry |
| Date | 00:19:50, November 24, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, It is disappointing to see the KFF and the DAL quibbling over comparatively small sums of money. What is at stake here is balancing Dranland's budget. Isn't that important? Taoiseach Aled Pritchard MP |
| Date | 21:18:13, November 24, 2013 CET | From | Koalisjon for frigjøring | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Global Warming is a top priority, I condemn Mr.Pritchard for his attempts to empower global warming skeptics, he should've cut the waste in the health department. Kennedy Rousseau MP Deputy Leader of KFF |
| Date | 01:56:31, November 25, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Balancing the budget |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Making small efficiency savings in the Environment budget of 3% does not mean we are global warming deniers and does not mean we are attempting to "empower global warming skeptics". The Honourable Gentleman needs to get his facts right, because at the moment he is making no sense that the DAL are with their ranting about an imagined "genocide" against Dranish farmers! Taoiseach Aled Pritchard MP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 93 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 288 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 18 |
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