SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has announced the start of the procedure to approve a new decree of recognition of the dependency situation on the islands that is less complex and helps citizens who need it have a response in time.
This was said this Tuesday in response to a parliamentary question from the spokesperson for the Canarian Socialist Parliamentary Group, Ángel Víctor Torres, about the benefits granted in Dependency during his first two months in office.
“The assessment we make [de la gestión en la materia] is highly satisfactory and we are delighted to be able to have an independent person in charge of such an important area, without a political card and with great knowledge due to his training and professional background of what social justice and caring for people are”, the president noted.
Likewise, he pointed out that the legacy left by the so-called ‘Flower Pact’ is that never before in the Canary Islands have the rich been so rich and the poor so poor. “And that,” he added, “is official data.”
Clavijo demanded Torres – who pointed out that in these two months there have been 723 benefits delivered and that in the same months of the previous year there were 1,733 – that there be no “traps for the solitary”, since in 2019, there were 83 new benefits in August and this past month there have been 387.
He also observed that the system is complex and that for this reason the procedure has been initiated for the approval of the new decree of recognition of the dependency situation.
“That is what we are talking about from the Government of the Canary Islands; changing procedures and systems with people who know, with people who are professionals so that access is not a ‘way of the cross’ that generates the consumption of many public resources of personnel due to its complexity and so that the citizen can have a response in time,” he stated.
PSOE: CLAVIJO’S PRIORITY HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED
From the PSOE, Torres pointed out that in two months of Government, Clavijo’s priority has been demonstrated, since in July and August of this year 723 benefits have been delivered, compared to the 1,737 that there were in the same period last year.
“With you,” he told Clavijo, “1,000 fewer families have received dependency benefits. And it is curious because you say that you have put a responsible person at the head of the Ministry but you have not had any type of restraint from appointing more than a hundred political positions in his government and he has not named the General Directorate of Dependency until yesterday”.
For Torres, “it is clear” that this issue is not a priority for the new Government of the Canary Islands. “With the ‘pact of flowers’ the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Rights said that the Canary Islands led the response of all the Autonomous Communities in social rights, and that is the legacy that we leave. Walk down that path and help families with more need,” he concluded.
