KUCHING: Second Minister of Finance, Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh (pic) said the Auditor General’s report for public account of the State of Sarawak for the year ended 31st December, 2015 has again been certified with a clean bill of financial health.
“This has been certified by the Auditor General that we have this clean bill for the financial health for 14 consecutive years. This means that our financial statement for 2015 has been able to maintain such good track record for 14 consecutive years.
“You may ask why our 2015 account is only laid on the table now… it was because we could not do it in the last session. It is because we need to wait until the parliament has passed the our Auditor General’s report before it can be brought to DUN before it can be tabled to the parliament on 21 November, 2016 which was after our DUN session and so we have to wait now, and after it was tabled to the parliament, then we can table it in the DUN,” Wong told reporters at a press conference held at the DUN here last Tuesday.
On the supplementary bill, Wong said that on Tuesday there were two supplementary bills. One was the First Supplementary Estimates of Ordinary Expenditure 2016 amounting to RM189,312,700 while the other was the First Supplementary Estimates of Development Expenditure 2016 amounting to RM12,600,380.
“For the supplementary estimates we need it because some of the funds utilised by some departments and agencies have not been provided for or have not been sufficiently provided for. Hence, we need this session of DUN to present it as supplementary estimates.
“This additional expenditure as I said have not been are provided for or which have not been sufficiently provided in the original estimates.
“For the First Supplementary Estimates of Development Expenditure 2016 amounting to RM12,600,380, the funds are mainly for the Ministry of Tourism to boost the local tourism industry,” he said.
