Marape: Manage expenses and support service delivery
BY ISAAC NICHOLAS
The government pays K150 million every fortnight to more than 200,000 public servants to serve the whole country, according to statistics released by Finance Minister James Marape.
He said 200,000-plus government workers salary alone was about K150 million a fortnight or which equated to be K3.9 billion a year or 25 per cent of the National Budget.
Mr Marape was speaking at the 2019 annual leaders’ summit with the theme “Tracking and consolidating and charting the way forward” held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Port Moresby yesterday. He called on ministers, heads of government departments, agencies and state-owned enterprises, public servants, parliamentary staff and judicial services to effectively service the population of this country with efficiency and to stick to budget.
“It baffles me to say the least that there is a lot of wastage in our system. There must be efficiency in expenditure to deliver to our people. Revenue is something that is beyond our control but expenditure is within our control,” he said.
“Stick to the budget and control waste in personnel emoluments and to exercise discipline in the spending. Statistics don’t lie, words do sometimes lie.”
Mr Marape was one of the key ministers who made a presentation yesterday on financial sector reform at the leaders’ summit.
He said not only financial sector reforms, but the positive impact that they were having on collecting revenues and managing available cash to ensure it was directed to priority areas, particularly provincial and district service delivery.
He had a rundown on the trend of improved positive outcomes of major expenditure and no tax revenue streams, the Public Financial Management reforms led by Finance that underpinned the transformation of financial performance.
Mr Marape said the national government had maintained its commitment to support services improvement programs (PSIP and DSIP) and assured the leaders that it would meet its commitment.
He said to meet government commitment to decentralisation of funding for service delivery, there had been a concerted effort to constrain the growth of expenditure by national departments.
The exercise of tight expenditure management in 2018, ensured provincial and district funding was met, resulting in a 33 per cent decrease in the actual expenditure by the national departments between 2016 and 2018.
“Our ability to sustainably grow the budget and responsibly manage expenditure to support our service delivery, particularly in provinces and districts where most of our people live, is only possible thanks to a sustained period of hugely successful public finance management reform,” Mr Marape said.
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