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Where the finance minister sees an increase in funds of “more than one billion euros for the National Health Service”, the BE deputy finds only another “four million”. The disagreement between the Government and the blockers continues: João Leão’s audience in the Assembly of the Republic is in the middle and there has not yet been a meeting point on any subject between the Executive and the BE. With the PCP, the conversation goes smoothly.
The deputy BE focused her intervention on the disparities between the budgeted promised expenditure and what the Government then carries out. For example, additional funds from the State Supplementary Budget are not being used, said Mariana Mortágua. In addition, he recalled the divergence of the values calculated for the measures of budgetary impact by the Executive, compared to those found later by the Technical Unit of Budgetary Support, in the analysis of the different documents presented by the Government, in the scope of the Budget of the State of next year.
In response, João Leão assured that the measures to combat the pandemic, detailed in the supplementary budget, “are being implemented.” According to the minister, it should even be necessary to use additional funds from the Ministry of Finance to reinforce the planned spending for these initiatives. “THE spending will increase by 9% and that was not what was expected, it would increase by 3% “, emphasized Leão, guaranteeing that such an increase” never occurred in the last 20 years. ”
Regarding the divergences found by UTAO, the minister argued that they are only “technical and statistical issues, and not substantial important issues.” Then, he took the opportunity to show several graphs, with the increase in the number of doctors from the SNS, accusing the BE of not wanting to recognize what “climbing stairs” is, which always happens at the beginning of each year. There are more than 22,000 professionals in the SNS, guaranteed João Leão, between 2015 and 2020.
And continued: “Comparing 2021 with 2020, the SNS increases by more than one billion euros. Even compared to the supplement, there is an increase of more than 500 million. ”
But Mariana Mortágua responded: “The spending of the Public Administrations in 2020 does not consume the authorized spending of the amendment. The SNS budget is 143.6 million below the SNS in the supplementary one,” she stressed, ensuring that these figures are the result of the Government tables. “THE The SNS budget has an increase of four million euros compared to the one executed in 2020, “he added.” Is it with four million euros of additional transfer to the SNS that you intend to combat the pandemic after 2020? “, I ask.
The minister no longer had time to answer that round of questions. The blocker’s questions about spending on civil servants (whose increase in 2021 will be only 300 million euros, when in 2020 it was 400 million) and about the injection of 476.6 million euros planned for the New Bank also remained unanswered. .
PCP highlights the progress but says that what counts is the final proposal
With the deputy Duarte Alves, of the PCP, the debate focused more on politics. The communist acknowledged that the Government has made some progress towards what is demanded by the PCP, however, he recalled that the final global vote depends on the response that the EO 2021 is able to give the country, and not on the small advances against the initial proposal of the Communist Party. Government.
Duarte Alves valued the extraordinary increase of 10 euros, as of January, for the lower pensions, the advances in free childcare and the risk and unhealthy allowance. However, he argued that the 20% supplement that is provided for essential services professionals “cannot be amputated” by limiting its scope. Likewise, increasing the minimum amount of unemployment benefit is not enough, because it was necessary to broaden the criteria and the concession and terms as well, he explains. “There must be a much wider universe than is considered,” defended Duarte Alves.
João Leão did not advance a comma compared to what was already foreseen in the OE 2021 proposal, recovering only all the measures that the Government claims to have included in the document to meet the requests of the left.
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