The Minister of Finance
read the 2014
Supplementary Budget in the well
of Parliament on Thursday July 10, 2014, and the bill was duly approved
the same day and
passed into law. The document makes provision for additional government
expenditure and revenue beyond what was outlined in the main 2014
budget approved late last year. The amounts involved in this
supplementary budget are relatively small (less than 10%) compared to
the main budget. There are no great shocks, no glaring indiscretions of
government that the suspicious might impute to a revised budget. The
largest single item in the supplementary expenditures is Le65 billion
(about $15 million) for procurement of medical equipment and supplies,
no doubt largely in connection with the Ebola outbreak.