SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Vice President of the Government of the Canary Islands and Minister of the Treasury, Román Rodríguez, has advanced this Tuesday that the Executive has spent until August a total of 50 million of the credit item of 100 million foreseen in the regional budgets for this year and has committed others 30 million, mainly for housing aid and replacement of infrastructure in the affected municipalities.
In response to a question from the Nationalist Group in a parliamentary commission, he has pointed out that his Ministry enables the necessary credits at the request of the Executive departments and believes that by the end of the year they will be able to exceed 120 million -not counting chapters 1 and 2– .
He has also highlighted that if it were necessary to resort to indebtedness, as the CC-PNC has proposed, it could be done, but he does not see it as necessary, apart from the fact that from 2024 “curves are coming” in the economy and the structural spending of the autonomous community.
However, he has recognized that an “operational instrument” is needed to channel the reconstruction of the island because if each administration begins to execute its powers “dispersion and inefficiency will prevail.”
Lady Barreto (CC-PNC) has admitted that “money is needed” to address all the needs of the island and for this reason she has asked the Executive to go for a loan to increase the funds given that the 30,000 euros have not yet been paid compensation for housing or the construction of promotions in Tazacorte is blocked.
It has also detailed that there is a lack of psychologists to meet the demands of those affected and defray the costs of the farms devastated by the lava, valued at about 108 million.
Barreto understands that the 97 million item is “not enough” when the total damage on the island reaches 982 million, so he expects a loan from the Executive to be able to replace infrastructure and generate “a livelihood” that prevents the depopulation of the island. island.
