‘Gen. Lertrat’ reveals that the Senate has set up a budget committee for 2024 to work in parallel with the MPs due to a delay in the process. The first meeting will begin on 15 Jan., waiting to hear the government explain the answer to the decree. ‘Digital money’ reviewed
8 Jan. 2024 – At Parliament, Gen. Lertrat Rattanawanit, a member of the Senate (Senator), revealed that due to the draft Act (Act) for the fiscal year 2024 expenditure, the process is considered very slow. This leaves little time to work. As scheduled in early April, it must pass the House of Representatives. and must be sent to the Senate for consideration within 9 – 10 April in order to present it to the King around April 17, which the time frame for the Senate to consider is very little, only 6 – 7 days.
“For this reason, the President of the Senate has the idea to set up a committee (committee) to consider the draft 2024 budget bill for the Senate. The committee will be set up tomorrow morning (January 9) with a total of 41 people, both from the Whip Committee and 5 outside experts. The meeting will begin on January 15, parallel to the committee. House of Representatives In order to help government agencies also conveniently provide parallel explanations, around March 20, the Senate committee will end its consideration. together with the committee of the House of Representatives, then enter into the amendment and bring it to the Senate to open the budget debate on April 9th in order to provide enough facts and details. Now the detailed documents have been gradually distributed. So that members will gradually come to receive them,” Gen. Lertrat stated.
For the overall budget of 2024, General Lertrat said that although there are many limitations, But the government was able to push the budget up to 3.48 trillion baht. The first issue is that an investment budget of just 20% may not be enough to push the country out of the problem, including pushing GDP to 5% as the government hopes. With the allocated budget, it may still be too little. Including the government’s policy, it is not reflected in the budget as it should. Most of the total budget will increase 9% from last year. Therefore it is distributed throughout. Therefore, pushing for various policies such as the digital wallet project must rely on external mechanisms such as the Loan Act Therefore, we can only hope that the budget for 2025 will come out soon. There will be a clearer direction.
As for the trend of digital wallets, General Lertrat said that he would have to wait for January 9th for the government to come out and explain what the Council of State’s opinion is. But there are still many parties who disagree. When the government came up with this policy, it may still have been in a state of economic crisis. Therefore stimulate the economy by giving money to the people to use. which many countries in the world do
“But to date, the economic crisis is still not that bad. Various inflation It is not as expected by world economists. Therefore, taking 500,000 million baht and giving it to the people, if problems arise next year or the year after, it will be a problem. Therefore, I want the government to think again about whether to proceed with this project or not,” General Lertrat said.
2024-01-08 06:30:27
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