LVŽS summoned Gentvilas on the mat, the latter defended himself: this is a non-human topic discussion

Minister Gentville said he understood that his explanations were needed.

“Naturally, explanatory and reassuring dances are like that. I will start with the fact that compared to the September draft budget, the Ministry of Environment draft budget has been supplemented with an additional 2.5 million euros in salaries, half of that amount is allocated to the AAD .

It employs more than 500 people, out of a total of 2.2 thousand. employees of the Ministry of the Environment, this is undoubtedly a disproportionately larger share of funding. The institution is certainly not paralyzed, it will be the only institution where additional positions will appear ”, he mentioned the financial aspects.

“There will be a single window, which you started in the last legislature, and I also voted for it then and I will continue to consolidate its work in a single institution,” he added.

The Minister of the Environment, S. Gentvilas, said that it is necessary to intensify the conflict.

“It just came to our knowledge then. Why it may seem disproportionate attention to the AAD, then we have received 8 complaints about the activities of the department, 4 – about the director Olga Vėbrienė. We have not received from other institutions. As well as the department should investigate all complaints about possible contamination, it should also do so. It is on their basis that investigations are initiated, “he explained.

In assessing the causes of the conflict with O. Vėbriene, S. Gentvilas pointed out that in the case of the Būtingė accident, one of the AAD inspectors was subjected to too severe penalties.

“The second thing that did not happen is the relation to the Būtingė accident. O. Vėbrienė informed me personally.” … There was a bit of a misunderstanding, because when I asked the ordinary inspector, in my opinion, disproportionate measures were taken against him, “he said.

“I am trying to imagine how, for example, Saulius Skvernelis would react to a head of a subsidiary if he dismissed a person who informed one of the members of the Emergency Commission,” Gentvilas said.

The LVŽS met a little earlier with the head of the AAD Olga Vėbriene, who, according to the group’s report, spoke about “the critical situation in the environmental protection system”.

“He spoke openly about the pressures and political decisions difficult to explain, the calls from politicians, the warnings not to inform law enforcement about possible criminal activities observed during the service, the planned restructurings of AAD and the drastic layoffs that will lead to many workers lose their jobs. and income., – writes LVŽS.

“Take the facts out of context”

Farmer Tom Tomilin reminded the minister that the public had even drawn up a separate petition when his last name was mentioned as a candidate for environment ministers. They urged Gentville not to appoint ministers.

“The question is political, isn’t this activity so beneficial for the larger companies?” Asked farmer T. Tomilinas.

“It just came to our knowledge then. Some of its members, parties, active in politics are large owners of capital. This does not mean anything bad in itself, bad when interests are violated,” explained S. Gentvilas.

He said that the peasants “take the facts out of context.”

“I met with O. Vėbriene 3 times, two of them were collective meetings, the last one was personal at the Seimas. I have not written personal letters about the above problems and situations. I guess I was recording at the third meeting.

And if there was any pressure, I am politically determined: let the whole conversation last an hour. Because no other assumption that has exerted pressure makes sense ”, assured the Minister of the Environment S. Gentvilas to the representatives of the LVŽS faction.

Please don’t politicize

The peasant Eugenijus Jovaiša declared in the faction that he had worked with O. Vėbriene himself. Therefore, rumors about his lack of professionalism cannot be believed.

“I had to work with her at O. Vėbriene. I knew this man as honest, honest and very professional. I hope he can reconcile these initial misunderstandings, I cannot believe there is any malicious activity,” urged farmer E. Jovaiša to the Minister.

The Minister of the Environment of the LVŽS S. Gentvilas faction asked not to politicize this process. He stated that O. Vėbrienė is a person close to politics, because the last 5 positions were taken by the “signatures” of politicians, that is, by appointment.

“Please don’t politicize, I see a genre like that. If we want to maintain professionalism, let’s do the same together,” he urged.

Appointed the prosecutor’s office

Shortly after the meeting with O. Vėbriene, the president of LVŽS Ramūnas Karbauskis and the elder of the LVŽS faction in Seimas Aušrinė Norkienė addressed President Gitanas Nausėdas, Prime Minister Ingrid Šimonytė and the General Prosecutor’s Office about possible illegal actions of the minister of the Environment S. Gentvilas.