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Katalin Novák, a candidate for Minister without portfolio for families, also spoke about the housing construction program and a new family protection action plan at his pre-appointment hearing on Friday at the Parliamentary Welfare Committee.
The politician responsible for the area so far as Secretary of State has announced: It is preparing for the largest homebuilding program of all time and will present a proposal to the government shortly. The goal is to reach more people with the new program, he added.
He also said that they are also preparing for a second family protection action plan, the details of which will be described later. He announced that his Fidesz deputy, Róbert Zsigó, who still holds the position of Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, would be his parliamentary secretary.
Responding to questions from MPs, Katalin Novák said his ministerial appointment would not reduce his room for maneuver, but rather hoped to increase it. She said she has her colleagues, that she works with her team so far and that she will not move to another government building. She said that they would not operate as “islands”, but would be connected with the other ministries and institutions by “a thousand threads.”
Among the changes, he mentioned that he could attend government meetings to be informed of “first round” decisions. He also mentioned that in the course of his work he still has representatives from family organizations, churches and scientific life.
He stressed that the issue of families will continue to be a priority for the government and that its measures will continue to restore the trust of families and encourage them to take on planned children. She believed that her aspirations and measures so far had started positive trends, even with cautious optimism, they are already visible in the statistical data.
As an example, he mentioned that the desire to have children increased by 20 percent, the number of marriages for 43 years was not as high as now, while the number of divorces is at a minimum of 60 years and the number of abortions as well. decreased by more than 30 percent.
In his report, he listed individual forms of family support, among which he highlighted, among other things, the introduction of the family-friendly tax system, the grandparents’ gyed, the extra gyed, the graduate gyed and the construction program. household.
After the committee hearing, the ministerial appointment of Katalin Novák was supported by nine deputies and three rejections.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced last week that Katalin Novák, Secretary of State for Family and Youth at the Ministry of Human Resources, vice president of Fidesz, will be the minister without a family portfolio as of October 1; the prime minister justified the decision by protecting the families’ standard of living.
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