Opposition Leader Don Poyle claims the supplementary budget, handed down by the National Government, aims to correct its mistakes in the 2016 National Budget.
“The concept of bringing a supplementary (budget) addresses a very critical area and that is to address a budget that was wrong in the first place.”
Poyle also claimed the alternative government’s response in November last year regarding the 2016 budget projections were spot on.
“If you look at the budget projections we gave on this side and the projections you gave, and compare with what you are doing right now, this side was on spot.
“You went on a K13 billion budget, and I was shouting you stay around K10 billion, you look at the Hansard or at my budget reply.
“Now you have done what we showed 12 months ago,” Poyle said on Thursday.
He further predicted that the O’Neill-Dion Government will introduce another supplementary budget in the November sitting.
This is the third supplementary budget handed down by this government.
Treasury Minister Patrick Pruaitch handed down the supplementary budget in Thursday’s Parliament sitting, which was passed.
Caption: File picture of Opposition Leader Don Poyle.