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The oversight role of civil society institutions on the performance of the House of Representatives at its second electoral
Date: Monday 12/03/2012 10:38
Baghdad / term
at a seminar organized by the Committee of civil society organizations, parliamentary partnership with the Observatory Parliament Foundation's perceptions, which was held at the headquarters of the House of Representatives on Sunday, which shed light on the performance of the House of Representatives, and distributed symposium on several issues, including:
absence and presence
was distributed absences by provinces during the 12 meetings have been calculation of mathematical method in the calculation of the following absences Members by Governorates:
The number of absences during the 112 members of the session / the number of sessions / number of deputies of each province. Has been calculated absences for 112 sessions.
have reported results that the province of Salah al-Din was the highest among the provinces in the proportion of absences reaching 10.7% and decreased the percentage of absence in the past months, which amounted to 14.5% and was the province of Baghdad, came in second by 5.3%, as has been monitoring the increase in absenteeism than in months past, which was 4.9% but remained in second place while third place went to Anbar province, increased by 4.6% and continued to maintain third place for months, years despite an increase in absenteeism compared to months past the 3.5% in the province of Sulaymaniyah Governorate Karbala at least an absence of Iraq's provinces by 1% to the province of Karbala and 1% of the province of Sulaymaniyah. the percentage of absences parliamentary blocs from the beginning of the Council's work At the same methodology in the calculation of absences, was calculated percentages of absences parliamentary blocs, according to the following: total absences mass / number Vice mass / number of sessions. note that the calculated ratios listed for 112 sessions. According to the ratios that the coalition of the unity of Iraq was the highest in the rate of absenteeism among the other blocks as it was represented 12.2%. Decreased the percentage of absence for the months past amounting to 16.2% while the percentage of bloc share of the absence of 11% and so occupied the second place, up on the proportion of Giabadtha for the months amounting to 10.5% in the past came with the proportion of Iraq's third grade by 5%. In came the mass change at low ratios, as amounted to 1.4%. planned percentage absences blocks during the (112) meeting the percentage of absences parliamentary blocs during the three months for this report, calculated this Alnsphl (11) session during the three months mentioned was calculated by dividing the number of absences mass during these months the number of meetings (11) divided by the number of deputies of that block. Reported ratios that the Iraqi bloc was the highest percentages of absences through (11) session by 4.6% and the mass change is less blocs absence, as was represented by zero%. the distribution of absences by the committees for (112) session were distributed absences Members to various committees to varying degrees for months past has been was calculated absences are cumulative according to the scheme outlined in the below, came absences committees as follows: 1 - Affairs Committee members and parliamentary development by 91 2 - to the deportees and displaced by the total accumulated 69. 3 - Finance Committee by 63 in commissions were at least an absence for the period of the past as follows: 1 - Committee on Women, Family and Children by 9 absences are cumulative. 2 - Action Committee and Social Affairs by 12 absence cumulatively. 3 - Higher Education Commission by 13 absence cumulatively. as shown outline follows: absences by gender produced indicators Observatory Parliament that the Iraqi women in the Council more commitment and presence of its meetings as the percentage of absences for women compared to the absence of men as follows: - the proportion of the absence of women = 2% the proportion of the absence of men = 3.9% has been calculated this ratio by dividing the number of absences on the number of meetings the total by the number of members by sex in the Council and the adult: women = 82 members of the men = 243 members and this means that the rate of absenteeism for each session for women = 1.64 member per session while the total rate of the absence of men, including rate = 9.5 members per session. the presence and absence of members of (11) meeting of the month The three continued team Observatory Parliament Iraqi movement the presence and the absence of members of Council Cumulative may get the following numbers: 1 - Number of absences without excuse 109 and a rate of 3%. 2 - Number of absences excused 1440 and a rate of 40%. 3 - the number of attendees the total members of the Council 2026 and a rate of 57% 4 - was the highest attendance of members during the period covered by the report is the 225 deputies in the meeting No. (3) held on 24/11/2011. 5 - the lowest attendance of members during the period covered by the report is 165 deputies in the session (15) held on 23/1/2012. Committees of the Council for the fourth time being the observatory of Deputies Iraqi amendments to the committees of the Council due to changes in the members of the committees as a result of compensatory seats and the movement of members between the committees according to their requests, so we find it necessary, follow the movement of variables and installed in Each quarterly report with We do not deny the differences contained in names between what is installed in the observatory and what is published on the site of the Iraqi Parliament. in the light of changes in the number of committees have been monitoring the top of parliamentary committees in number and the least in number and as shown in the below: 1 - came Committees following by 17 members: a - the Integrity Committee B - Foreign Relations Committee, c - Commission on Security and Defence. 2 - came the following committees by 16 members: a - the Legal Committee. b - the Commission on Human Rights. c - Committee for the economy and investment. D - Health Committee and the environment. e - of the Education Committee. and - to the Commission on oil and energy. 3 - With included for Culture and Information Committee of six members other than to form 4 - empty the following committees of the Board members did not represent women, which included: 1 - Security and defense 2 - Tribal 3 - National Reconciliation 5 - while ago, one committee is the Women, Family and Children of the representation of men. 6 - the highest representation of women in the committees as well as the Committee on Women, Family and Children as follows: A - Services Committee, ages 8. B - Human Rights 8. 7 - included committees of the Council of various 309 members of the Council members, and by adding the Presidency becomes the total number of 312 was not known the work of a 13-member subscribers, as the total number of members of the net 325. unpublished Iraqi Council of Representatives absences are members of any local newspaper for the time period the past and only the deployment of absences on the site of the Council, contrary to the provisions of Article 18 I. of the rules of procedure of the Council Article 18: The first (published attendance and absence in the Bulletin of the Council regular and one of the newspapers) did not show the Presidency subject of non-response to the MPs who exceeded Gaabathm more than ten sessions intermittently before the Council. as provided for in Article 18 II of the Rules of Procedure of the Council. Article 18: Second through his participation in the seminar Foundation (perceptions of) the Deputy Speaker of Parliament stresses the need to hear the House of Representatives for the street view and respond to it emphasized First Deputy Parliament Speaker Dr. Qusay al-Suhail on the need to respond to the House of Representatives of the Iraqi street as the other is not possible in this matter, but We see that the opinion of the Iraqi street is the one who must listen to him. said in a speech at the symposium that was held yesterday in the House of Representatives under the auspices of civil society institutions and in collaboration with the Foundation (perceptions of) titled (the oversight role of civil society institutions on the performance of the House of Representatives) that "the hold such a seminars represents a great opportunity for the House of Representatives to communicate with civil society organizations and institutions other than the official to evaluate the performance of the Council in terms of regulatory and legislative. emphasized First Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives, Dr. Qusay al-Suhail on the significant role that must be played by civil society organizations in monitoring the work of the Council Representatives and the diagnosis of negatives and positives in it. He added that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives has taken upon itself a number of things on the mechanism and the way that would interact and communicate with these organizations for the transfer of the concerns and problems of the people to the Council as reflecting the opinion of the Iraqi street and aspirations. " Dr. Suhail said, "the legislature based the basis of the political process in the country and should not shy away from assessing ourselves positively or negatively as well as the civil society organizations are responsible for evaluating the work of other Council of Representatives and the analysis of a purely scientific way." He said the oversight in the countries of the world be one of the Federation Council, which represents the second chamber of the legislature, but the law that was submitted to the House of Representatives on the Council of the Union means the representation of the regions in it. "And stressed the need to respond to the House of Representatives of the Iraqi street as the other is not possible in this matter, but we we see that the opinion of the Iraqi street is the one who must listen to him. praised the reports carried out by the Foundation perceptions about the House and demanded that there will be an analytical scientific information you get. in turn, praised the institution (perceptions of) the efforts of the First Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives, Dr. Qusay al-Suhail in facilitating Our Work in addition to his hard work in Parliament.
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