Of the presidium, today we are considering the draft state budget for 2024 by First Reading a total of 1,620 amendments were submitted to the budget. The Budget Committee held a working Group Meeting for two days, during which we, together with the authors and the ministry of finance, discussed and looked for opportunities to take into account all the valid proposals made by the honorable peoples deputies, but according to our assessment, in order to take into account the submitted proposals, in general, additional almost uah 12. 5 it is impossible to take into account all these ideas and wishes in practice, because all possible receipts of ukraine, income from placement of bonds of the domestic state loan and help. Partners amount to a maximum of uah 3. 960 million per year, and they have already been allocated by the ministry of finance to various expenses in the draft budget, therefore, in the Budget Committee, we concentrated our efforts on redistributing expenses from less important areas to those that are absolutely necessary for the functioning and survival of the ukrainian state. The 2024 budget remains the budget of a warring country with one clear priority defense. Funds for security and defense in the project are fixed at the level of uah 1,690 billion, or 21. 6 of gdp. The second priority of the expenditure part of the budget is traditionally the social sphere. About uah 400. 69 million is proposed to be directed to support ukrainians who have fallen into various difficult life circumstances or have reached retirement age. An increase in state social standards is planned for next year. First of all, the minimum wage will increase from january 1 to uah 7,100 and from april 1 to uah 8,000. This means that the state. Establishes a rule no institution or business can pay a ukrainian less than 8,000 uah per month, because the real cost of living has increased significantly since 2022, when the minimum wage was last revised. Expenditures for the support of veterans are increasing significantly, in particular for the implementation of programs and measures of the veteran policy, for which expenditures in the amount of 14. 3 billion hryvnias are planned, which is twice as much as the expenditures of the current year. Of these funds , uah 2. 6 billion will be directed to the physical and psychological rehabilitation of veterans. We will have a new project regarding the dental prosthetics of soldiers who received such wounds at the front. At the same time, the Committee Proposes to the government to reduce spending on construction, repairs and property purchases in various state bodies, by almost uah 1. 3 billion, and to redirect these funds to prosthetics for ukrainian soldiers and teachers salaries. We believe that the dignified life of ukrainians is important and more important than beautiful facades in state bodies. One of the important decisions of the committee is also an increase in state budget revenues by uah 10 billion. This week. The Verkhovna Rada will vote on draft law 9656d to introduce an additional one tax to tax banks, banks have to pay double. A higher income tax of 36 so that their excess profits can be used to finance defense needs. At the same time, the Committee Gave the cabinet of ministers 61 mandates to work out individual issues before the second reading. But this year, the implementation of a significant part of the state budget is expected , as well as in the following years. Year will depend on International Financial assistance, so we need to adopt the draft law on the state budget as soon as possible so that the government can start negotiations with International Partners regarding the coordination of funding sources, the committees conclusion, please let the committees conclusion be announced, so the Budget Committee recommends. The Verkhovna Rada to accept as a basis and as a whole the draft resolution of 10,000 pp prepared by the committee on conclusions and proposals to the draft law on the state budget for 2024. Taking into account such a decision will enable the government to prepare the bill for the second reading, taking into account the budget conclusions of the Verkhovna Rada. Thank you, lets work together. Glory to ukraine. Glory to heroes, dear peoples deputies, i am asking. Sign up for questions to the speaker, please, colleagues, lets sign up for questions, please, zahorodnyi. Platform for life and peace group, thank you ruslan oleksiyovych, i ask you to give the floor to peoples deputy koltunovych Oleksandr Serhiyovych , please, koltunovich, Oleksandr Serhiyovych, thank you, dear madam chair of the committee, i have a question for you regarding minimum calculations, the subsistence minimum indicator , in particular, and i would like to draw attention to the fact that how you predicted this parameter in view of that fact. That you have, for example, an increase in the tariff for electricity this year, it has already increased from 1. 44 to 2. 64 kopecks, as reflected in the dynamics and rates of growth of the subsistence minimum, respectively, of the minimum pension and other indicators, this is the first, the second, regarding the impact of these inflationary and devaluation processes, how did you also calculate this parameter , since it has increased, and this dynamic does not correspond to the growth rate of the subsistence minimum and the subsistence minimum for persons who have lost their ability to work, well, i cant help you to ask, regarding the forecast parameters, we have arrears for the payment of wages, as well as arrears for housing and Communal Services, which are calculated there at 140 billion hryvnias, what figures are you planning for this year, please, ruksola andriivna, and answering to your first question, i want to say that the subsistence minimum is set in the state budget at the level of uah 3,028, but here , for all peoples deputies, and for those ukrainians who will watch us, online or on television, it is necessary to say that subsistence minimum is a calculation category, it is included in the state budget in order to calculate various payments, salaries of officials, we have been talking for a long time about the need to reform the system of social payments and disconnect from calculations based on the subsistence minimum, because when we generally operate the subsistence minimum category in the state budget, we, unfortunately, and for our citizens, it sounds as if the state expects that someone in ukraine can live on uah 3,000, this is absolutely not the case, the ministry of social policy monthly calculates the real minimum, which now exceeds uah 6,000, this is the minimum that a person needs to survive today in ukraine, so i propose, and we carry out this work with the social policy committee, that all social payments in future budget periods should be freed from such an abstract category as the subsistence minimum. As for other macroeconomic indicators, which are included in the state budget, the government has made a macrofinancial one the macroeconomic forecast, which will be updated by the second, and if now, for example, we have a 5 increase in the gross domestic product, then in 2020, please papiev, mykhailo mykolavych, thank you, please pass the floor to peoples deputy skoryk, skoryk, mykola, please, dear rukslana andriivna, the question is as follows. Our group submitted a set of amendments, these are social amendments, in addition, there was talk of limiting the salaries of not only civil servants, but also top managers of state companies. Was this reflected in the amendments in the budget that you took into account, besides, when it was time for the government, i asked Prime Minister mr. Shmegal a question about helping our farmers in the conditions that, unfortunately, this fall we are observing a soil drought on the lands, well speaking, i know well about the odesa region, are these funds provided for in the state budget for next year, thank you for the answer, let s start with the agrarians, so indeed funds are provided for the support of the agroindustrial sector, in particular, for example, there will be two programs for agriculture this is a long known in Ukraine Program of partial compensation of the cost of Agricultural Machinery for ukrainian production, which will be purchased by ukrainian farmers, about 1 billion hryvnias have been invested in this program. The state also offers to compensate the expenses of ukrainian agriculture and ukrainian farmers for demining. Leaders, this is now an extremely important and big problem, because a large part of the cultivated areas is mined, which concerns the ministry of agrarian policy, they also have a significant budget to support agriculture, about 30 billion hryvnias on various programs, in general allocated to support business in 2023, thank you, thank you, please, koltonovs. Oleksandr serhiyovych, platform for life and peace group, thank you, Dear Committee chair, in continuation of my previous question, see, you did not answer the question, i was interested in two specific figures the debt for housing and Communal Services, its reduction is predicted, and in what way at the current tariff subsidiary policy, it will decrease , and there is the return of arrears for the payment of wages, these are two concrete numbers, then look, i agree with you about the indicator of the living wage, but i also formulated the question and the question of the minimum pension. The minimum pension is 2,361 hryvnias. According to the data of the pension fund, a significant proportion of citizens of ukraine receive exactly the minimum pension, we receive these applications, well, i , for example, go to the Electronic Office where electronic applications are received, we see these numbers when questions are asked, for example, the cost of Communal Services exceeds the amount of the minimum pension, therefore, if you can clarify this issue, the second point, it is also as applicable as possible, it concerns demographics, child benefit, 41,280, while 860 uah per month child benefit. How is it planned to increase this indicator . Thank you. You are absolutely right that the minimum pension now does not allow you to live even for one month, taking into account not only utilities, but also expenses for medicine, for example. Therefore, as far as i know, the govt plans to implement a pension reform, not only the socalled. System, but also the reform of the solidarity system , in which it is said that the large pensions received by judges, prosecutors and various other former officials should be reduced, while the smallest pensions received by the poorest ukrainians today should be increased, this is a reform solidarity system, and i am sure that next year the parliament will support it and allocate additional funding for such a pension reform. As for the payment of utility services, all citizens in need assistance in the payment of social services, will receive, as before, a subsidy for such payment. If any of the peoples deputies knows that some lowincome family has been refused payment of their utility bill, refused to pay. Subsidies, please inform me, inform the social policy committee, we will promptly resolve this issue, which concerns the reduction of housing debt Communal Services, which are included in the state budget, the arithmetic is very simple here. Fortunately, we see a trend towards increasing the discipline of ukrainians in paying for housing and Communal Services, debts are reduced, because our compatriots pay these debts and we are extremely grateful to them for this, because they ensure the stability of the energy system. Thanks, can ask one more thing. Question, i understand, yes , frolov, instead of kovalchuk, correct, please, frolov, thank you, mr. Chairman, ms. Roxelano, i would like to thank you for the completely open and Transparent Organization of the process of discussing the amendments to the budget in the First Reading, thank you, that you invited all deputies, regardless of their membership in the Budget Committee, who were able to defend their amendments, but unfortunately, politics returns to this hall, we see that the amendments, the total amount of amendments was 12trillion hryvnias, and yesterday unfortunately, we failed, we could not pass the law on vat and to direct an additional 25 billion hryvnias to the needs of the armed forces. I have a question, what will happen now that we will not be able to provide shells and money for shells and drones, respectively armed forces, how we are going to proceed and how we are going to solve this issue, because we have to support the army now. Thank you. Thank you, pavlo valeriyovych, indeed, after voting on draft law 10. 037 yesterday, we had to allocate uah 8 billion for the purchase of drones and uah 8 billion for the purchase of artillery systems for the armed forces of ukraine. Unfortunately, the peoples deputies. Denied our Defense Forces such an opportunity, but the Budget Committee, the leadership of the council and the servant of the people faction will insist on a revote on bill 1037. In early november, because we we take a responsible position before our servicemen, and when we receive a request from the general staff and the ministry of defense. We cannot fail to fulfill it, so i call on the responsibility and conscience of the peoples deputies present and ask everyone to vote for draft law 1037 at the second the second reading, without it a large amount of material and Technical Support of the armed forces of ukraine in the 23rd and 24th years will be simply impossible, thank you, thank you, dear colleagues, we have completed the first the block related to the speakers speech and questions to her, please, roxelana andriivna, take your place, the floor for the speech is given to the minister of finance of ukraine, Serhiy Mykhailovych marchenko, please, serhii mykhailovych, good morning. Dear peoples deputies, i am turning to you with great gratitude, because quite constructive work was carried out in the Budget Committee of the parliament, all amendments were passed, the discussion was quite difficult, as always, the budget is a subject for compromise, and 1,600 amendments were submitted edits have been submitted by peoples deputies in the amount of 12. 5 hryvnias. Something taken into account, you have given us the opportunity to improve this budget, i hope that together we can finalize this budget and come to a constructive solution in the near, near future, we in turn after you vote, i hope that you will support this decision conclusions and vote, it is very important that the government further refines it, why is this an urgent issue now. Because, unfortunately, we are currently in a situation where the focus of ukraine in the world is shifting, we are no longer on on the agenda of the world media from the countries of the world that help us, and this should be taken into account, and therefore i am very sorry that you did not support some decisions aimed at balancing the budget to solve the urgent problems of the security and defense sector, in particular yesterday. The draft law, which provided for the redistribution of personal income tax, was not supported. I want to remind you that you and i have one single task one priority, we have no higher priorities, this priority is the security and defense sector, there will be no others countries of the world to help us, if we dont do it ourselves, i may not be speaking in a less emotional tone now, as i said last time, there were remarks to me, i made certain conclusions, but everything is the same, the degree of tension that remained, i want him, you understand, that the situation is quite difficult, countries, our partners are significantly increasing their own military budgets, and they are increasing their military budgets not only in terms of aid to their own army, they are increasing their own military industries, these are quite insane amounts of funds , which are now are directed all over the world to the sector of the militaryindustrial complex, so i hope that when revising the bill on amendments to the budget code in the second reading, even the second reading, you will take into account todays trends and todays nerves and the situation, because in the future in ukraine we have we must be dependent on our own forces, including our own economy, including our own defense and industrial complex. These are very important messages that i wanted to convey to you. I have just returned from the annual meeting of the imf bank, the level of support remains consistently high, but it is becoming more and more difficult for us to convince our partners to seek support within their own countries, if they see that we have a discussion within the country, and unfortunately they do not understand this discussion, that is why i am sending you these messages report, i believe that we should do joint work, the budget for 24 by 24 years is extraordinary. Complex, it involves rather unpopular measures, not everyone will be happy, but, excuse me, no one should be happy when a country is at war, the only the sector that needs support is the security and defense sector, all other sectors will be financed on a residual basis, if we have Less International aid funds, we will contact you with a proposal to reduce spending. And about a possible increase in taxes, about a possible redirection of decisions that were made earlier, about limiting the expenditures of local budgets and about other unpopular measures. Im not scaring you, im just warning that the situation is changing quite dramatically, and not for the good, unfortunately, because to discuss for a long time and make decisions that, due to the political context, the political. Context must be shared, is to provide our own army so that we can win this war. Thank you for attention. Thank you, dear colleagues, the floor for the speech is given to the acting head of the Accounting Chamber andriy vasyliovych meisner, please. Dear mr. Chairman, dear peoples deputies of ukraine, members of the government. The Accounting Chamber carried out an examination of the draft state budget for 2024 and sent the Verkhovna Rada of ukraine the relevant conclusions we actively worked with the Budget Committee at all stages of the project, preparation of the draft state budget for the next year. For more than 600 days, ukraine has been living in the conditions of a largescale war. On the key priority of the National Security and defense of ukraine, the government. Proposes to direct uah 1. 7, or more than half of all state Budget Expenditures in the next year, however, dear people s deputies, this may turn out to be insufficient if this indicator is compared with the monthly amount of Actual Expenditures for nine months of the current year. Against the background of Budget Constraints resource in conditions of war and the ability to direct only revenues from internal sources to defense. There is an urgent need for the temporary centralization of budget funds to direct them to the defense of the state, and this does not destroy the achievements of the decentralization reform, but ensures the financial ability to defend the state and citizens in war. Enrollment in the state budget of the pdf from the Financial Support of the defenders of ukraine and the funds of the road fund is an additional capacity of the armed forces of ukraine, and funds from paving and asphalt should go to victory. The position of the people s deputies of ukraine regarding the increase in expenditures for defense and defense of the state and provision of our military due to the reduction of nonpriority expenditures of the state budget in the conditions of war is worthy of attention. In particular, uah 574 million was redirected to the prosthetics of certain categories of persons who defended and defend the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. By the way, dear peoples deputies, the Accounting Chamber has currently completed the system audit of the effectiveness of prosthetics in within the borders of ukraine. This is currently a huge problem for ukraine, our pain and request for a qualitatively different, effective state policy in this area. In 2024 , it is proposed to receive 45 of all from external creditors. Revenues, primarily from the government of the United States of america. We have to maintain and strengthen the trust of our International Partners through accountability, transparency and efficiency in the use of these funds. Of course, the flip side of this coin will be a 77 increase in stateguaranteed debt, which will exceed gdp by the end of 2024. Already in december this year, the Accounting Chamber will complete two very important audits of direct budget support of ukraine from the usa. To ensure the vital needs of the population of ukraine and the stress resistance of the Ukrainian Medical services system. In 2024, we will conduct an audit of the effectiveness of the use of funds to provide housing for internally displaced persons and ukrainian families from temporarily occupied territories, which had to be integrated in other regions of ukraine, in accordance with international standards, coordinated with german colleagues. This is a question of social guarantees and again, the effectiveness of state aviation in wartime conditions. This is also managed with the second social and humanitarian priority in the draft state budget spending on ensuring constitutional guarantees for citizens of ukraine. In particular, we are talking about health care, expenses for which will increase by 14 . Regarding education , for example, spending on arranging shelters for educational institutions will increase by uah 1 billion or 2. 7 times in order to preserve the life and health of participants in the educational process and improve the quality of education itself in the offline format. All other expenses in war conditions state budget projects are reduced to a reasonable minimum. The Accounting Chamber responds quickly to challenges and has transferred its work to military rails as well. We conducted an audit of the effectiveness of the use of state budget funds aimed at the implementation of measures for psychological rehabilitation and readaptation of our heroes and their family members. As established by the audit, a large part of our defenders did not receive proper services. In order to ensure the legitimate interests of every defender of ukraine, a significant increase of the relevant ones is necessary state Budget Expenditures next year, and this is exactly what is taken into account in the draft budget. For the year 2024 , expenditures for the rehabilitation of the military are proposed in the amount of 2. 6 billion uah, which is 4. 8 times more than approved for 2023, as well as the introduction of a new subvention for the support of individuals in the amount of 3. 8 billion uah. Again, we must emphasize with you that this is not an ideal, but a balanced wartime budget. The Accounting Chamber, through an audit, will control that the funds of ukrainian and foreign taxpayers are used by the government of ukraine effective for the victory and preservation of our state. Thank you for your attention, dear peoples deputies, glory to ukraine. Dear colleagues, dear peoples deputies, i am asking you to sign up for speeches in the parliamentary factions of the groups, it is three minutes per speech, i remind you. Please, dear colleagues, write down. To speeches from the fraction of groups. Please, honcharenko, oleksiy oleksivy, fraction of european solidarity. Oleksiy goncharenko, european solidarity, dear friends, we are currently considering an extremely important issue, we are talking about the state budget for next year. We understand with you that the most important thing in our country today is war, but war is about resources, and Financial Resources are one of the Key Resources that we are now talking about how to distribute them. , and now, friends, this is really an extremely important topic, however, judging by the presence of peoples deputies, they do not think so, in the session hall there are again, far from even 226 peoples deputies, and well, the deputies have other things to do, again they are very busy with something not staterelated budget, and this