MPs raise queries with ministers on various domestic issues

The Lower House Monday held an oversight session, chaired by Speaker Abdul Karim Doghmi, in the attendance of Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh and cabinet ministers.

The legislature dealt with 11 queries by lawmakers, including one by MP Inad Al-Fayez on energy agreements that were signed with various companies, but was postponed for two weeks during which Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Saleh Kharabsheh will brief the House’s Energy Committee on his ministry’s plans and strategy on the energy issue and present the MP with all the documents and agreements.

Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Wajih Owais replied to a question by MP Bilal Momani on the Teachers’ Housing Fund and easing the terms for obtaining housing loans, and promised to hold a joint meeting on the issue.

Minister of Health Firas Hawari replied to a question by MP Osama Qawabah on opening Tafileh Government Hospital and providing it with medical equipment, saying that the tenders for medical devices had been forwarded to companies, while the health facility will be up and running during the first quarter of the new year.

On a question on the Dana Reserve by MP Omar Nabir, Energy Minister Kharabsheh, who is also Acting Minister of Environment, denied there was a memorandum of understanding on copper extraction with any company, noting that the previous memorandum had expired and that there are no feasibility studies in this field.

Minister of Public Works and Housing replied to a question by lawmaker Ali Khalayleh to merge the Urban Development Corporation and other independent units as part of administrative reform.

Asked by MP Mohammad Bani Yassin on the recovery and growth of the tourism sector, which was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Nayef Al-Fayez said indicators point that Jordan surpassed expectations about the number of visitors, which exceeded 2.1 million so far this year.

State Minister for Media Affairs Faisal Shboul replied to a question by MP Dirar Al Harasis on the appointment of the Director General of the Media Commission without a prior announcement and his demand to amend relevant legislation.

Other queries related to appointments in government companies and the public sector, the governorates’ budgets, tourism in Madaba, registration of properties in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone, education and health services and infrastructure and sanitation, among others.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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