Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Professor Biman Prasad says he will be tabling a motion in Parliament in the next sitting later this month to review the allowances of the Prime Minister and members of Parliament.
While responding to a question on fijivillage Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan on when will the salary review for the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers take place, Professor Prasad says Parliament had passed the motion to set up an independent Parliamentary Emoluments Committee, which is going to look at the salaries, the allowances and the pensions.
He says they have set up this committee for the first time after 16 years.
Professor Prasad says the committee has got the services of an independent expert, and its report will be presented to parliament for debate.
He adds what had happened before that the previous government in 2016 brought a revised Parliament Remuneration Decree 2014, which increased to a maximum of $3400 in some locations because UNDP per diem rates differ from location to location and country to country.
The Acting Prime Minister says the National Federation Party had opposed this in 2016.
Professor Prasad says their proposed reduction which has been agreed to by the cabinet will reduce the allowances to almost half and that is what they had promised and it will be part of their motion in the next parliament sitting.
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