With a couple of weeks away from the 2018 budget session, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the budget will be framed around achieving economic goals.
“The budget will be framed to spare goals in the economy and it will not be overly dependent on the resource sector but more focused on agriculture and other sectors,” said Prime Minister O’Neill.
He added a tough stance will be taken on some industries, like forestry and fisheries, to address some of the misuse and abuses that have been going on.
“That is a lot of work that is being done and going before cabinet to try and protect our interest, our people’s interest in these sectors.”
He said they are trying to correct past abuses.
“Making sure that with the information we have, all the revenues that we have lost as a result of some of the agreements that have been signed many years ago that are detriment to our nation and our people is something that we want to correct,” stresses O’Neill.
These, he said, were the basis on which they will frame the 2018 budget.
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