Parliament to start saving too

Parliament is announcing savings measures and better control of spending, with the parliamentary budget for this year significantly down on 2008.

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Tuesday, 03.02.2009.

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Parliament is announcing savings measures and better control of spending, with the parliamentary budget for this year significantly down on 2008. Administrative Committee Chairman Nenad Konstantinovic has announced saving measures and tighter control of spending. The first step will be an end to payment of daily expenses for meetings of MP clubs. Parliament to start saving too A review of final accounts showed that parliament had been haemorrhaging money last year. Millions were spent last year on cell phones, expenses and travel. “There are no indications that funds were illegally spent, but there are indications that the money was spent in an unreasonable manner,” Konstantinovic said. “We have examples where people on temporary contracts spent money for trips abroad totaling over EUR 53,000 last year. Someone, who was traveling abroad on the state’s tab, someone who was not even an MP, or working permanently in parliament, spent over EUR 50,000,” he said. As far as MPs are concerned, Milos Aligrudic was the biggest culprit, spending EUR 24,000 as chief of the delegation to the Council of Europe. Aligrudic said that he wanted to be furnished with a breakdown of the billing information. “Given the number of meetings, their structure, the agenda and reasons for my being there, I don’t know, we will see whether the figure that was published is correct or not. If it is, it is absolutely justified, whether it was 15,000, 28,000 or 24,000,” he said. “I say that it is justified because there is no choice there. We could either participate at that level, in an international parliamentary organization, or we could have decided not to participate,” Aligrudic said. A total of EUR 74,000 was spent on daily expenses for MPs attending their group meetings in 2008. Of that figure, the Radicals alone took home more than half. Senior Serb Radical Party official Dragan Todorovic said that there had been no misuse of funds. “When MP groups meet, there is a list that those MPs who attend sign, and that is given to the treasury. So I’ve got no problems on that issue,” Todorovic said. (FoNet)

Parliament to start saving too

A review of final accounts showed that parliament had been haemorrhaging money last year.

Millions were spent last year on cell phones, expenses and travel.

“There are no indications that funds were illegally spent, but there are indications that the money was spent in an unreasonable manner,” Konstantinović said.

“We have examples where people on temporary contracts spent money for trips abroad totaling over EUR 53,000 last year. Someone, who was traveling abroad on the state’s tab, someone who was not even an MP, or working permanently in parliament, spent over EUR 50,000,” he said.

As far as MPs are concerned, Miloš Aligrudić was the biggest culprit, spending EUR 24,000 as chief of the delegation to the Council of Europe.

Aligrudić said that he wanted to be furnished with a breakdown of the billing information.

“Given the number of meetings, their structure, the agenda and reasons for my being there, I don’t know, we will see whether the figure that was published is correct or not. If it is, it is absolutely justified, whether it was 15,000, 28,000 or 24,000,” he said.

“I say that it is justified because there is no choice there. We could either participate at that level, in an international parliamentary organization, or we could have decided not to participate,” Aligrudić said.

A total of EUR 74,000 was spent on daily expenses for MPs attending their group meetings in 2008.

Of that figure, the Radicals alone took home more than half.

Senior Serb Radical Party official Dragan Todorović said that there had been no misuse of funds.

“When MP groups meet, there is a list that those MPs who attend sign, and that is given to the treasury. So I’ve got no problems on that issue,” Todorović said.

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