Members of the National Council (NC) have raised concerns regarding challenges affecting different regions, such as access to health facilities, shortage of medical staff and the need for improved services in rural and remote areas.
The MPs were contributing to the Health and Social Services budget.
Parliamentarians in the National Council applauded the Ministry of Finance for a well-crafted budget amid tough global and domestic conditions, as they contributed to the Ministry of Finance's vote at the committee stage.
Issues related to police operations, infrastructure development and accessibility to national documents came up during the discussion of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security's N$8.15 billion budget allocation.
Members of parliament raise concerns about poor road conditions, questioning how the Ministry of Works and Transport will address these issues.
They raised this during the debate of the ministry's budget allocation.
Members of Parliament raised concerns regarding the maintenance of state properties and the failure to maintain infrastructure properly.
They raised these issues during the debate on the Ministry of Works and Transport’s budget allocation.
Some Members of Parliament have raised concerns that the needs of the boy child remain under-represented in national programmes.
The concerns were raised during the debate on the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare's N$417 million budget.
During debates on the N$460 million budget for the Ministry of Justice and Labour Relations, Members of Parliament raised concerns about fairness in the justice system, discriminatory provisions, inconsistent rulings, and poor infrastructure access in rural areas.
Various members of Parliament in the National Assembly have raised a number of issues during the discussion of the Ministry of International Relations and Trade vote of a N$1.37 billion budget.
Members of Parliament are continuing the budget debate, which commenced this week under the committee stage.
Debates range from a number of items on the order paper where MPs shared their views on how they feel funds should be utilised.
As Namibia's parliamentary budget debate continues, SWANU MP Evalistus Kaaronda criticised the unchanged economic structure since the early 1990s, calling for the budget to become a transformative tool.
