[000:00:00;00] resolutions on amendments to the resolution of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on the establishment of a temporary investigative commission of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on the investigation of possible violations of the legislation of ukraine in the implementation of public procurement during martial law regarding the inclusion of a representative from the faction of the european solidarity political party in the composition of the tsk 96:45 dear colleagues i propose to adopt in general , taking into account the proposal of the committee and with the necessary technical and legal amendments , the draft resolution 96-45, i ask the people of deputies to vote for 235 decisions, the following is a draft resolution on amendments to the resolution of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on the formation of a temporary investigative commission of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on the investigation of possible facts of violations of the legislation of ukraine by an official of the economic security bureau

of ukraine, state authorities and other state bodies exercising powers in the field of economic security, which could lead to a decrease in revenues to the state and local budgets regarding the inclusion of a representative of fractions of the european solidarity political party registration number of the draft resolution 96:57 i put the proposal to accept as a whole, taking into account the proposal of the committee and with the necessary technical and legal amendments , i ask to vote for 174 decision not made thank you colleagues, let 's move on, the following is 10,019 this is a draft resolution on the formation of a temporary investigative body of the commission of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on the investigation of the adequacy of funding by the central bodies of executive power for the proper treatment and rehabilitation of servicemen in institutions

of health care and related issues , i propose to accept in general , taking into account the committee's proposal and with the necessary technical and legal amendments, to this draft resolution 10.00019, asking the people 's deputies to vote for 269, the decision has been made. well, dear colleagues, dear colleagues consideration of the issues on the agenda for today has been completed. thank you all for your fruitful work. now i announce a break to our plenary session . you will be notified of the time and place of its continuation in advance

. we will continue to work for victory. glory greetings to ukraine dear colleagues dear ukrainians in fact, i want to share my impressions of the few days we spent with the people 's deputies in the session hall in plenary mode and it is very unfortunate that we, with the help of the majority, were able to vote in the parliament , so to speak, a bill that removes the military personal income tax and from all local self-government bodies, i do not want to generalize all risks and problems, but in general, without going into detail, i will say that the imbalance of local budgets will absolutely not lead to any the constructive and normal normal existence of those management units that are called to manage

subordinated independent communities are completely zeroed out of local self-government and secondly, if we are talking about the system of defense and assistance of local self-government bodies from the beginning of the full-scale invasion of 2022 from february 24, then of course such withdrawal of the military personal income tax e.e. destroys this system as well, because the mayors of the territorial communities of e.e. the ministry of defense promptly help the military units it won't be able to quickly, there are huge flaws. and in general, in the government , when they wrote the withdrawal of military personnel from local budgets for personal income tax from october 1 of the current year, i have the impression that the government absolutely does not understand management processes, i have the impression that uh, those mechanisms of interaction of authorities among themselves, they are not accessible to our government. because

it will be impossible to physically implement this law at the end of the year, and it would be impossible, because to list 2,000 budgets is an extremely difficult situation, moreover, in the case of municipal heads. i think that the club for programs that are underfunded but planned since the beginning of the year, debts that arose as a result of some possible accidents in the system or other things , that is, there are e-e contractors who may have performed certain works for local communities with their own working capital, but if the funds are withdrawn, these debts it will remain so and these enterprises do not receive money for this, the key question is why this is happening, it is clear that we have a number of challenges when i hear that in some communities they are laying paving stones and asphalting roads instead

of using funds more efficiently and to send them to help the defense forces or for some other reason. yes, there are such cases here, local to us people's deputies or together with the government . nothing prevents us from clearly prescribing the articles that are targeted, protected in the amendments to the code and prohibiting spending on these things . the construction of stadiums. even everything else is here. yes, there are such cases, unfortunately, and at the same time , it is permissible to use these resources without withdrawing personal income tax to local self-government bodies to eliminate, for example , rocket attacks and the consequences for the assistance of the ukrainian armed forces internally to persons for maintenance housing and communal services system so that we do not have any such emergency accidents in our cities or the possibility of them, if they happen, to be eliminated quickly by the forces of communal

enterprises, therefore, dear colleagues, it is very difficult to understand the government here. i believe that this is a non-professional, unprofessional decision that completely destroys the entire institute self-government which are called to manage the introduced links and opens another question, of course, you will tell me where to get the money . brought out several cases that in one way or another give us answers to the question of what is equal to corruption in ukraine and one of the industries where we already see huge abuses when on any one device is it a computer tomography tomograph or is it any other

device or expensive equipment is earned for communal medicine, i.e. for the state twice as much e-e with twists and turns, money is involved than for example for private e-e health care institutions and everyone should work here, not only the temporary investigative commission. now, unfortunately, we only see journalistic investigations, we do not see the absolutely proper work of the law enforcement agencies, which are called to clearly monitor and look for abuses in the context of e-e manifestations of corruption, but, well, we have such facts, because here we will give examples: lviv in chernihiv, the purchase of tomographs, the price is 10 million more than the market price the price in ukraine so there are a number of questions to the services that accompany the conduct of these tenders, and of course

something needs to be done with the legislation. we see how through gaskets sorry for the slang of gaskets, gasket companies are not even in ukraine, but even in europe, e-e, they are doubling the price and equipment is already being purchased, it is being installed in ukraine at e-e, at a percentage, being more than on the markets, we will fight, we will bring it to society all our investigations are temporarily investigated by the investigative commission ah, according to my observation, it works very densely and powerfully there, not only cases there without medicine , but also on the purchase of electricity, on the investigation of possible facts of embezzlement at bomb shelters, including in the capital on

it's a pity, that's why we will inform later what and how we are with information in this context, thank you, dear attendees, dear viewers , i would like to devote my speech today to the topic of the budget, budgetary policy. as you know, yesterday the cabinet of ministers of ukraine presented the draft state budget in the verkhovna rada of ukraine for the year 2024, this budget is definitely a martial law budget , a military budget, and its main figure is 0, that is 1.7 trillion hryvnias, spending on the defense sector is actually half of the state budget of ukraine, that is, if we we have a revenue part of 1.7 trillion hryvnias, another 1.6 million hryvnias of expenses , 3.3 of them, the main figure is the defense budget and the military budget, so from this point of view, by all means, everyone found, and most of the parliamentary factions of the groups found, those words of support for this

of the document precisely considering that it has a defense direction, this is the defense sector, there is a defense-industrial complex, the loading of defense capacities, this is also the payment of the salary plan of the military, this is social payments, and so on, therefore, from this point of view, this budget is i am convinced that it will be supported in the first reading in the second reading . stability of the country and overall resilience of the country, which i would like to pay attention to, as it is represented by the committee on state economic policy, so it is on the macroeconomic forecast and on those parameters that are significantly important in this budget will contribute to the support of the socio-economic development of ukraine, well, first of all, this is an absolute increase in the level of the minimum or the size of the minimum wage, first to seven thousand 100 and then

to 8,000 hryvnias from 6,000,700 hryvnias to 7 to 8 hryvnias , this is a significant increase that will be reflected in the increase in real incomes population, this will contribute to the stimulation of the domestic consumer market, increased domestic production in the further increase in tax deductions and fees and will have a cumulative economic effect for ukraine that's why this step is important. and it's good that the government found an opportunity to raise the minimum wage to 8,000 from april 1 next year . as for the budgetary and tariff subsidiary policy, in this aspect, i would like to draw attention to the fact that there are 33.7 billion uah allocated for subsidies, this figure definitely needs and will strive to be larger, we will also submit proposals to the first reading in order to slightly adjust the expenditure part of the budget in the direction of increase just of funds for allocated subsidies, taking into account at least the fact that this year we had

an increase in electricity from hryvnia 44 to hryvnia 2 64, therefore, from this point of view, people with minimum fixed incomes have this difference in the tariff to definitely receive subsidies. therefore, this is one there will be a proposal regarding other proposals. we will also submit proposals from the deputy group regarding the support of internally displaced persons, the increase of social benefits, e. including for persons who have lost their ability to work, this is about the minimum pension. well, and a number of other derivative things that also apply to the expenditure part of the budget , it may be appropriate to review and make proposals that we made in the last budget regarding the limitation of payments to members of supervisory councils and salaries somewhere in the size of 10 minimum wages, it will be 81 for today, next year, and 80,000 hryvnias for the next year, so these are valid figures that will, on the one hand

, reduce the deficit of the state budget and increase it on the other hand maneuvers or variations to overcome the asymmetry of the subsidiary policy. well, as for the overall macro forecast of 10.8%, the consumer price index for goods and services or the inflation index is uah 41 and four tenths per dollar - this is the forecast exchange rate, which means that there is a small devaluation of the national monetary unit can also be reflected in the inflationary pressure inside the economy , therefore it will also be necessary to take into account changes to the macroeconomic forecast in order for the macroeconomic monetary policy to be the basis and foundation of the implementation of the budget policy and did not become an anchor in certain situational processes if there are questions and we are ready to answer them, but when will the first reading and the second reading take place, when will we already be able to take into account and see the fully submitted budget taking into account the proposal of the budget committee we will definitely be able to give

i give him full marks, but i would like to repeat that this is the budget of martial law and how unconditionally we will support it, given the figure that stands out. thank you for your attention oleksandr kovalchuk, people's deputy of rivne region dear ukrainians, dear journalists present. i want to inform you that the work of the temporary investigative commission continues. i literally left for a few minutes to inform you about the progress of the issues and events that we are discussing and working on at the temporary investigative commission. as stated, this temporary investigative commission works within the framework of possible abuses during the period of the full-scale invasion from february 24 of last year, and during this period i want to draw your attention to the fact that public

procurement in ukraine was carried out about six million pieces for a total amount of about 1.5 million hryvnias, of course our temporary investigative commission cannot consider all these millions of purchases, but we choose the most vivid examples, and perhaps as abuses we are approached by a large number of mass media today, a member of our commission was e- yuriy nikolov, a representative of the our money program, who last year reported to society about abuses in the electricity and natural gas purchase market , and today we considered several of cases, several stories about how state

enterprises, local self-government bodies, utility companies , abusing their powers, purchase electricity at excessively high prices, the price of electricity. everyone knows this information is open. kilowatts and cubic meters, we are simply horrified by the figures we see, we see only on the example of one region an overpayment in the amount of 450 million hryvnias during the war at a time when every hryvnia, every penny is necessary for our armed forces, at a time when the verkhovna rada adopts a very complex law on personal income tax , which must go to the budget from local communities in order to send more money to the army , a large number of fund managers abuses his position i also want to say that today at the meeting of the temporary

investigative commission we considered the story about the construction of the stadium or even the reconstruction of the stadium in kivertsy, in volyn, and there the local authorities decided to spend more than 140 million hryvnias to equip running tracks and improve the local stadium in which community with less than 30 thousand people have decided to spend imagine 140 million during the war to improve the conditions at the stadium, many of you have probably heard about this story was addressed to us by public organizations and mass media so that we could hear this story at a meeting of the tsk temporary investigative commission, and thanks to the work of the temporary investigative commission, you know, it all ended with the fact that this the tender will not take place, the money will remain in the community and, most likely, this money will go to the armed forces, at least that is what the representatives of the community promised us today, they terminated

the contract with the construction organization that was supposed to do it. mass media because three times we invited the leaders of this settlement to the meeting of the temporary investigative commission, of course we would like to consider as many such stories as possible at our tsk in order to attract the attention of society to give a legal assessment to all these purchases and somewhere to convince and somewhere to force managers of public funds of the budget to come to their senses and stop spending money on unnecessary things in such quantities and abusing the price , that is, overpaying because we are at war because 70 kopecks from every hryvnia today we are borrowing from our external partners, and we

will have to pay them back someday. i want to take this opportunity to thank the antimonopoly committee, the state audit service, the ministry of economy, the ministry of finance, who come on our temporary investigative commissions draw conclusions , hear about the problems we are talking about, make changes to the resolutions. and we , as people's deputies, will change the legislation to make such abuses of all scales impossible and to direct more money to the needs of the ukrainian army. what exactly is in question, but how do you confirm how to combat this abuse of natural persons?

to set a condition, i.e. transparently, it is like a platform. i want everyone to understand this, on which the customer sets his conditions, and the supplier, having received these conditions, can sell this product like this. neither is it transparent. neither is any other institution to examine the conditions of each tender, for that the cabinet of ministers at the level of resolutions develops recommendations that we should be conditions and the verkhovna rada is developing rules and there is already , of course, a law on tender procurement on public procurement that we need to change and improve, we already have about 10 recommendations to the relevant committees of the verkhovna rada in order to reduce the possibility of decision-making on the ground by writing out conditions in such a way that whoever wins at the price at which it is necessary, you understand, and well , of course, it is impossible to predict everything, but there will be changes and there are already changes , representatives of the government, which

we emphasized these problems during public procurement, as a result of which a resolution was adopted a where managers of funds cannot enter into contracts of more than uah 50,000 as per a direct contract, everyone must go to transparent procurement for a tender, if there is a need to spend more than 50,000 under a direct contract, then the justifications must be signed personally by the manager of the funds, and this is personally responsible for that . we thank the government for responding so quickly to our recommendations . what if there is nothing to announce the tender? how do you think it will affect well, of course, but this is not a good story, because in the communities there are also, first of all, the community, there are different managers of funds, there are different, you cannot say that all there are front-line territories, and there are body territories, and there are those that help the army a lot, and there are those that do not help

the army, but such cases of stadiums, roads, annual plantations , abuses in construction work , the purchase of medical equipment, electricity , fuel, and so on, and so on and so on led to to the point that the government has lost all confidence there and the opportunity to observe that so much money today lies in the accounts of local self-government bodies and this is exactly how they are being used again. we do not say that absolutely everything is done in our country by more than 1.5 thousand local self-government bodies of various levels, and it can be noted that some of them are very effective and help the army a lot . but unfortunately, there are also those who decided that they need stadiums, roads and cobblestones once again this is a shameful practice and this law , which will be prepared for the second reading in the near future, will give the government the opportunity to direct more money to its own ukrainian production of what is needed for the army in the form of drones and

shells, mr. oleksandr, you are choosing which cases will consider when we actually have 11 members of the temporary investigative commission. today we voted for one more member . he was not present, but there will be 12. and the secretariat receives a large number of examples. once again, there were 6 million during the war period of public procurement. hundreds of examples come to us from means mass information of concerned citizens, public organizations, and so on. and we discuss them at a meeting between members of the temporary investigative commission or in our e-e groups online and decide which of them are the most resonant big ones or those that attract our attention as citizens, including further, we take those cases that can become an example for changes to legislation on the territory of ukraine, that is, not a separate problem that is inherent in this state enterprise or in local self-

government bodies. and what concerns all of ukraine therefore, the purchase of electricity, all of ukraine , the purchase of medical equipment, all of ukraine , construction, all of ukraine, improvement of landscaping, all of ukraine, so we take such a thing or such a story that can be it was used by absolutely all participants of budget funds and we take it as an example and on the basis of this story we communicate with law enforcement bodies and controlling bodies who are our guests, also oleksandr , that your recommendations that passed tsn, the film was interspersed with specific citizens, if it is about a draft law, we are talking about this month and more if this is a decision of the government, as already mentioned, the government reacted to our recommendations and introduced this norm of 50,000, this is literally after the second meeting of the tsk, that is, three weeks

, the temporary investigative commission wants to note more will also work er year 12 months month it already exists after the first six months the report of the temporary investigative commission will be published which will also be available for publicity and for voting of course in the verkhovna rada we will report to the verkhovna rada in six months, dear ukrainians, we are all interested in in 2004, the financing of the army and the security and defense forces increased as much as possible, and it is for this reason that we in the verkhovna rada are members of the temporary investigative commission, which i head, to investigate possible abuses in public procurement which everyone has heard about is the construction of stadiums and other unnecessary things, we held the fourth meeting at which we considered examples of purchases where the state can potentially save in the event of the adoption of relevant changes

to the laws, save tens of billions of hryvnias, this is also the possibility of abuse in electricity purchases, which become very relevant just at the end year when state-owned enterprises and communal institutions buy electricity, and possible abuses in e-e procurement by local self-government bodies, in particular. today we we considered the well-known or publicized example of the construction of a running track stadium for 150 million in kivertsy, which was canceled thanks to a strong public position, including thanks to the fact that we , as a temporary investigative commission , raised this issue repeatedly, that is why we continue to work, our goal is that as a result of the work of this commission, the state could receive tens of billions of hryvnias in addition next year to finance the armed forces of ukraine, thank you, colleague, maybe a clarifying question

, please, and what were the participants before that use, there are still some solutions, that is, look at it. well, in kivertsy, i remembered , it was canceled the tender, not the tender, the contract was already signed three days ago, according to the case that we considered, it is the abuse of medical procurement, it is the abuse of procurement of electricity, we have just started working on them, there are already certain solutions regarding changes in the regulatory base in order not to allow these abuses to continue, this is actually more important for us because we want money to be saved in relation to specific decisions, etc. regarding specific sins of law enforcement agencies, the things that we started to consider , we also communicate with them and, after working hard, we will bring them to their attention, but i also want to draw millions

of purchases in the state in us for more than a trillion hryvnias, we are a commission consisting of 12 people's deputies from all factions. we cannot all consider tens of thousands of abuses, so we take examples of systemic abuses, there, there, about the stadium, there, about electricity, and so on. on example 2-3 we break down, consider, try to understand what the problem is. and further with this problem. we go to the government, to the relevant committees of the verkhovna rada , so that they change the laws , e. do you remember the situation there with the drums for shelters, it was broadcast on the network. and as far as i know, to the head of the dnipro rda education department, i am now talking about nataliya ivanivna, and she was simply

reprimanded, that is, there is no suspicion of embezzlement, what will wait for violators in general, that is, the actions of your commission, they are aimed there at some kind of recommendations, or at least about some more serious responsibility, this is a very good question , our main goal is the saving of budget funds , that is, us. since we are not a law enforcement agency, we are interested in abuses were stopped so that the money that was spent is not justified so that they are not spent so that we can spend it on other purposes the product of the work of our commission, but this is not the main main work of ours, for this there are actually law enforcement agencies that should deal with it. that is, we want to more broadly, let's say yes, stop the schemes