(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNAThe Shura Council held yesterday its regular weekly meeting under the chairmanship of the Speaker H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud.
At the beginning of the meeting the council discussed the report of the Legal and Legislative Affairs Committee on the draft law on regulating the receiving and spending Zakat money. After the discussion, the council approved the draft law and decided to refer its recommendations to the government.
The council discussed the reports of the Economic and the Financial Affairs Committee on the draft law on regulating the audit profession and the draft law on regulating partnership between the public and private sectors.
After the discussion the council approved both draft laws after undergoing a few amendments on some articles and decided to refer its recommendations on the amended draft laws to the government. The council also discussed the supplementary report of the Information and Cultural Affairs Committee on the request for a public discussion on education.
The committee confirmed its previous recommendations, which were stated through four aspects, added a few more based on the comments of the council members. For the curriculum development aspect, the committee recommended to focus on the Arabic language and Islamic education to promote the students' national identities.
On the students aspect, the committee recommended to take the needed procedures to enroll more students with special needs in education and for these procedures to enable them to attain the required education which commensurate with their special needs.
The committee also recommended to re-evaluate education vouchers and to study the feasibility of its continuity. It also recommended to review the length of the academic year and to standardize vacations between public and private schools.
The council discussed supplementary report of the Services and the Public Utilities Committee on the public discussion request submitted by a number of council members on the terrestrial and marine environment. The committee recommended future plans aimed at building waste recycling plants to benefit from it to generate power or converting organic waste to compost. The committee recommended to prepare a media plan to preserve the environment.
The committee recommended to develop the solid waste disposal methods to gradually abandon traditional methods of disposal of submerging them under the soil as currently practiced.
The Council discussed the report of the Services and the Public Utilities Committee on the request for a general discussion by a number of the Council members on health services in Qatar.The Committee recommended that priority be given to providing medical services to Qatari nationals, taking into account the priority of emergency treatment for all patients.
The Committee also recommended promoting the Qatarization of jobs in the appointments departments of Hamad Medical Corporation and its affiliated institutions and hospitals, which will lead to a positive impact on those departments.
Furthermore, the Committee urged re-implementation of citizens' health insurance, while correcting the mistakes of the previous experience in order to achieve the benefit of the citizens by meeting their needs of health services whether provided by the government sector or the private sector. It also suggested allowing the national private insurance sector to participate in the application of the health insurance system for citizens.
After extensive discussions, the Council approved the three reports on the request for a general discussion on education, the land and sea environment, and health services, adding what it deemed appropriate and decided to transmit its recommendations thereon to the esteemed government.
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