The Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service Board has welcomed the recent 2022/23 national budget.

Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has set the record straight with regards to the $180 payout for over 30,000 tertiary students as announced in the budget.

The Water Authority will be strengthening enforcement and compliance to curb issues such as tampering of WAF assets, illegal or unauthorized connections to water and sewage reticulation systems, and trade waste non-compliance.

The Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation has labelled the 2022/23 National Budget as fair.

Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has labelled the comments made by political parties and other critics against the 2022-23 National Budget as simply grandstanding.

The 2022-2023 National Budget is a very compassionate and rewarding budget, which considers the needs of the most vulnerable in our population.

The National Federation Party has labelled the Inflation Mitigation Package by the government, which aims to assist the vulnerable, as tokenism and peanuts.

The Fiji Police Force has been allocated $1.2 million under Head 50 to assist the Fijian Elections Office to conduct the General Elections.

The Republic of Fiji’s Military Forces budget has increased by $8 million.

People’s Alliance Leader Sitiveni Rabuka has described the 2022–2023 National Budget as a patch-up job.

The Fiji Labour Party has expressed dismay towards the 2022/2023 National Budget.

An additional budget of $17.7 million has been given to the Ministry of Forestry, of which $3.3 million will be utilized to support the widespread planting of trees in support of Fiji’s ambition to plant 30 million trees in 15 years.