LEADER of Government Business in the Senate Darrell Allahar has announced that the $3.1 billion supplementary appropriation is intended to cover “urgent and critical recurrent and capital expenditure” through to the end of the year, in areas where previous budget allocations were either inadequate or entirely absent.

Allahar made this comment during his contribution in the Senate on July 1.

“Quite a lot of the proposed appropriation has to do with expenditure under personnel expenditure wages and salaries, cost of living allowances, allowances for monthly paid workers, contract employment, short-term employment, salaries, contributions to NIS, remuneration to board members, allowances for monthly paid officers, pension contributions and travelling and subsistence.”