Speaker of the Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim (top right) chairing the regular weekly meeting yesterday.
Doha: Shura Council has stressed the need to localise expertise and benefit from the potential of retirees, noting the necessity of avoiding the use of external expertise if there is national expertise capable of carrying out the duties required to contribute to the labour market.
To achieve this, the members of the Shura Council pointed out the need to count the numbers of retirees, classify their experiences and the areas in which they can contribute, and work to establish a database that includes all the information necessary to benefit from these experiences.
The Shura Council held its regular weekly meeting yesterday at Tamim bin Hamad Hall under the chairmanship of Speaker of the Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim.
Their Excellencies the members indicated that this would support the national economy, achieve self-sufficiency in several jobs and advisory positions, achieve the maximum benefit from the qualified national cadre for the benefit of the country, and contribute to motivating and encouraging the retiree to play his role towards his country and society.
And after discussions characterised by concern for the interest of retirees and striving to benefit from them in the labour market, the Council decided to refer the request for general discussion to the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee to study it and submit a report thereon to it.
At the outset of the meeting, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Legislative Affairs, Sessions and Committees in the Shura Council Yasser Saud Al Musallam, read the agenda of the session, and the minutes of the previous session were approved.
During the session, the Council reviewed the request for general discussion submitted by a number of Their Excellencies members regarding benefiting from retirees in the labour market.
Within this framework, Speaker of the Shura Council indicated the importance of this issue, as it touches on an important segment of society, which has contributed significantly to the labour market and still has the energy to contribute to development efforts, affirming that this energy, if combined with the accumulated experience, will undoubtedly constitute an important resource to supply the labour market with the appropriate expertise and energies.
He noted that the previous council, headed by H E Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud, had discussed the same issue from various aspects, and submitted a proposal to the esteemed government.
The Speaker indicated that the proposals submitted by the previous council were taken into account and implemented on the ground, as Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani issued the social security and military retirement laws last year, noting that the request for the current general discussion seeks to follow up developments in this file, and to improve the reality of retirees according to developments in order to achieve their aspirations and hopes.
For their parts, Their Excellencies members of the Council stressed the interest that the wise leadership attaches to the human element as one of the pillars of development as what is stipulated in the country’s constitution, and what is embodied in the Qatar National Vision 2030 within the first pillar related to human development.
They pointed out the need to create an appropriate and supportive environment to benefit from retirees in the labour market, given that they are an important human element that has contributed significantly to the development process and many of them are still energetic, and thus they are ready to give and contribute effectively to supporting the national development process.
They noted the necessity of benefiting from the accumulated experiences of the retirees, who worked in various and varied jobs and professions, which made them competent and acquired knowledge that can be benefited from, reminding of the consequences of losing those capabilities and neglecting the role of retirees, which affects them psychologically and morally.
During the session, the Shura Council approved a draft law promulgating the Judicial Authority Law, and a draft law promulgating the Public Prosecution Law, in their amended versions, after having reviewed the report of the council’s Legal and Legislative Affairs Committee in their regard, and discussed the provisions of the two draft laws by Their Excellencies members of the council.
The Shura Council condemned, in the strongest terms, the violations committed by the Israeli authorities against the Palestinian people, the most recent of these violations and crimes was its commission of a new massacre in the city of Nablus, which led to the death of 11 Palestinians and the injury of dozens, stressing that these brutal crimes against unarmed civilians are a result of the international community’s negligence in dealing with them.
