SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has assumed this Monday that “there are still things to do” in the management of dependency on the islands but has highlighted the “objective data” that underpin the improvement thanks to the “reinforcement” in personnel and media by the Ministry of Social Rights.
In response to a question from the Socialist Group, he indicated that “numbers are numbers” and all political forces should rejoice regardless of whether they are in the “Government or in the opposition.”
Thus, he has stated, in comparison with 2018 and without the ‘Pacto de las Flores’ in the Executive, that degree recognitions are “more than double”, all the files are processed – they have doubled until August -, he has The waiting list has been lowered despite the increase in users of the system, while the provision of economic aid, criticized by the opposition, is now less than what was given in 2018.
The president of the Socialist Group, Nira Fierro, has indicated that in Spain “all social advances come hand in hand with the PSOE” and specifically the dependency law is a “consolidated right” and an “absolute priority” for the government pact after several years in which “it was abandoned”, as evidenced by the fact that in 2021 files from 2017 were still being answered.
He stressed that August “was a record month” in the processing of the dependency thanks to a “historic” budget increase and also in human resources, something that “is not complacency, it is self-demanding” after the PP cuts that “left the dependency in the ICU.”
