“73% of [Georgia’s] indigenous population is unemployed.”

“New jobs are not being created today, what we have is also being lost and this suspended economy is creating problems for the population.”

“Our government has allocated GEL 400 of aid for each veteran for the 69th anniversary [of the Great Patriotic War] and GEL 200 for each family which lost its breadwinner. You are aware that the state has launched a health-care programme which includes a

“No new enterprises have been created under the agricultural programme”

“Economic growth [for 2013] was equal to 8% in November, 8.4% in December and 6.9%, on average, in the fourth quarter with the growth trend continuing in the current year as well.”

"We plan to increase the salaries of rural doctors by 30% from next month as well as the salaries of nurses. We also started building dispensaries and 82 dispensaries will be built by the end of the year."

“In April wine export was equal to 19 million bottles which has increased by 180% as compared to the corresponding period in the previous year.”

“You (Davit Narmania) were unable to use GEL 200 million during your tenure as Minister despite the fact that you spent GEL 140 million GEL. In previous years, up to GEL 700-800 million had been spent on infrastructural projects in the regions.”

Zurab Japaridze discusses the problems related to the expenditures of the 2013 budget.

“In 2013, we had a shortfall of GEL 703 million in the budget expenditures. Tax revenues decreased by GEL 633 million. This year, already in the first quarter, government receipts revealed a shortfall of GEL 62 million.”

“Within the framework of preferential agro-credits, we have already issued 14,100 credits with the total amount of GEL 318,000,000. A total of 70 new enterprises have been funded and over 400 existing enterprises have been expanded and refurbished.”

“The prices of drugs have increased by 25%. Drugs are one of the biggest problems of the health care programme as the [Universal Health Care] state programme does not fund the costs for medicines. If we analyse the expenses on health care, we will see tha

"Anyone opening a dental office had no obligation to report about this activity to the Ministry of Health. That is why we do not know the number of dental offices in Georgia."

“In 2013, the number of visitors grew by 22%. A total of 5.4 million visitors came to Georgia and with this indicator we hold one of the leading positions in Europe.”

“Starting from November 2013, economic growth has been consistently high, varying between 7%-8%... In the first quarter of 2014, economic growth equalled 7.4%. An indicator of this magnitude has not been recorded in the first quarter of the year over the

On 30 April, representative of the Parliamentary Majority, Davit Onoprishvili, delivered a speech