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The House of Representatives held on (3/3/2021) its thirty-ninth session of the first legislative term for the third year, the fourth electoral cycle headed by Mr. Muhammad al-Halbousi, with 195 attendance, and the session included:
Representative Nabil Al-Tarfi, on behalf of the House of Representatives, welcomed the Pope's visit as a step that embodies human unity and its positive repercussions in spreading a culture of communication and distancing the culture of intersection.
- Postponing the vote on the sports clubs law proposal submitted by the Youth and Sports Committee at the request of the government representative and some sports clubs.
- Mr. Muhammad Al-Halbousi, Chairman of the Council, directed the Parliamentary Services and Regions Committees for the purpose of following up the issue of distributing plots of land to citizens in the governorates with the governors.
- The First Deputy Speaker, Mr. Hassan Al-Kaabi, directed the Finance Committee to submit its report on Iraq's sovereign fund for future generations within a week, calling on members of the House of Representatives and the Finance Committee to take a serious and urgent stand to return to the previous exchange rate. .
- The Council questioned the Chairman of the Media and Communications Commission, Mr. Ali Nasser Al-Khoweildy, presented by Representative Alaa Al-Rubaie.
- Attorney Alaa Al-Rubaie began his interrogation regarding misleading by the Communications Commission of the Council of Ministers regarding the renewal of mobile phone contracts and failure to adhere to the provisions of consumer protection.
- Mr. Ali Al-Khuwailidi stated that the questions directed by the questioned representative fall within the competencies of the Board of Trustees and are not within the competencies of the President of the Media and Communications Commission, indicating that no decision has been issued to renew or extend the mobile phone companies, and detailed reports have been sent to the Board of Trustees on all the merits of the mobile phone companies. By the specialized committee formed and studied and examined, and accordingly the Board of Trustees directed the renewal of the licenses contracts, granting the fourth generation, determining their wages, and obliging the executive management to present them to the Council of Ministers due to its importance, after which the Council of Ministers approved and approved the renewal of the licenses contracts for the two companies (Zain Iraq and Asia Cell) in order to fulfill the conditions and postpone the approval of the company’s request Cork until all of its obligations are fulfilled.
- Following the representative, Alaa Al-Rubaie, to the response of the Chairman of the Commission, indicating that the response of the Chairman of the Commission regarding the first question was contradictory and that no evidence was provided to prove the collection of debts owed by mobile phone companies whose contracts were renewed, pointing out that those companies did not adhere to the Budget Law to pay 60 days before the date Renewal.
- The head of Hayat Communications renewed his assertion that all debts owed by the mobile phone companies were collected and transferred to the Ministry of Finance.
- Representative Alaa al-Rubaie asked his second question about misleading the Council of Ministers by extending the total period for 8 years and not requiring companies to pay a regulatory fee in governorates that fell under the control of ISIS.
- The head of the commission indicated that decisions were issued to stop the claim to pay its obligations, grant additional periods, and consider ISIS events as force majeure.
- Representative Alaa Al-Rubaie asked his third question regarding the commission's cause of wasting public money and depriving the state treasury of additional revenues.
- The president of the authority responded to this question that the legal basis for determining licensing fees and fees is assigned to the Board of Trustees and is subject to international standards and practices and takes into account the quality of licenses in the countries of the world and the region. (340) licenses in the world were compared based on the standard of frequency band coefficient and population.
Representative Alaa Al-Rubaie asked his fourth question, which was about granting third and fourth generation licenses.
- The Chairman of the Commission indicated that the granting of licenses for the fourth generation tours was adopted the same mechanism in 2013 through the receipt of fundamental requests that were submitted to the Board of Trustees, noting that there was no free grant for the fourth generation and it was approved by the Council of Ministers and was appealed to the judiciary and the court’s decision was Supporting the procedures of the Commission and the Board of Trustees, which supported the correctness of the decision of the procedures for granting the fourth generation, and it was carried out within the laws in force and will support the revenues of the general budget.
- Representative Alaa Al-Rubaie asked his fifth question, which is the commission’s violation of instructions and laws in granting companies additional frequencies of broadband packages despite the failure of those companies to pay the income tax and fines due to the Ministry of Finance.
- The head of the authority answered that the companies pay all their financial obligations and that there is continuous communication between the Communications and Media Commission and the Tax Authority regarding the tax position of telecommunications companies, the safety of the position of Zain Iraq and Asia Cell, and the suspension of renewal with Korek due to the existence of a court case before the competent courts, indicating that no frequencies are granted within the range Broad.
- The questioned MP asked his sixth question about violating the provisions of Article 15 of the House of Representatives Law and the commission’s refusal to provide the House of Representatives with a copy of the mobile phone license contracts, which is a failure to perform a legal duty.
- The head of the commission answered dozens of questions and official books by Representative Alaa al-Rubaie, in addition to other questions from a number of women and gentlemen, and they were answered within the legal period.
- Attorney Alaa Al-Rubaie asked his seventh question regarding legal violations by creating administrative formations through the creation of a number of offices in Baghdad and the governorates.
- The president of the commission replied that the Commission’s law authorized the Director General to establish departments, units, or sub-divisions that he deems necessary, and accordingly two departments and offices were created, and these departments are not of the rank of director general.
- The questioned MP asked his eighth question about violating Article 18 of the licensing contract, through collusion with the mobile phone companies.
- Mr. Al-Khoweildy replied that Clause 18 of the licensing contract authorized the Authority to impose a percentage not exceeding (1.5) and was allocated for the purposes of universal service. This clause was not applied throughout the period before we took over the position and the companies required that after assuming the position the payment of the maximum revenue for the purposes of universal service.
- After the end of the interrogation, the questioned MP Alaa al-Rubaie stated that he was not convinced of the authority’s answers, indicating that many of the legal violations in the commission’s work were diagnosed.
- The Speaker of Parliament praised the role and efforts of Representative Alaa al-Rubaie in exercising his oversight role.
- The head of the Media and Communications Committee, MP Naim Al-Aboudi, praised the efforts of the questioned deputy, Alaa Al-Rubaie, and the cooperation of the head of the Media and Communications Commission, pointing out that there is a clear failure in the performance of the Media and Communications Commission and his lack of conviction with the answers of the Commission’s president.
- The House of Representatives voted not satisfied with the answers of the Chairman of the Media and Communications Commission.
- The Speaker of Parliament noted that tomorrow's session will be devoted to voting on the Federal Court law.
- Part of the session was headed by Dr. Bashir Al-Haddad
- The Council completed the reading of the report of the Parliamentary Order No. (148) to follow up the work of the Diwaniya Order No. (29)
- The first reading of the draft law of the first amendment to the law regulating the lease of agricultural lands and owning the right to dispose of them for agricultural and veterinary graduates No. (24) of 2013 submitted by the committees of agriculture, water, marshes, financial and legal
- The second reading of the draft law on confronting the Corona pandemic submitted by the Health and Environment Committee.
- The ladies and gentlemen of the representatives discussed a number of important issues, including the call to the Ministry of Finance to facilitate the issuance of new real estate bonds in Nineveh Governorate to facilitate citizens' access to housing loans to help them rebuild the destroyed homes, and to emphasize the need to pay attention to teaching Islamic education in schools, in addition to asking the government to support the local product, especially Tomato crop in Basra Governorate.
After that, it was decided to adjourn the session to tomorrow, Thursday 4/3/2021
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