The Minister for Families, Social Welfare and Dependency Care, Sandra Fernández, has reiterated her commitment that all infrastructures included in the 2017-2021 plan will be opened and will come into service, emphasizing that this will be done despite the fact that, as she has recalled, the PSIB failed to carry it out.
During the full session of the Parlament held this Tuesday, Fernández responded to the interpellation by PSIB deputy Omar Lamin, who stated that 5,400 people are awaiting the dependency services already recognized, 1,600 are on a waiting list to access a day center and 1,400 to a place in a public residence, with waiting times doubled.
The minister has criticized the "neglect" and the "lack of planning" of the previous term of office, which she has blamed for lower bids in procurement and cuts that, in her words, "played with citizens with dependency and their taxes".
Along the same lines, Fernández has launched into what she has described as the improvisation, propaganda, and lack of rigor of the previous Executive, and she has highlighted that the current Govern, despite the fact that the central Government has placed the Balearic Islands "at the bottom of state funding" even though it has increased tax revenue by 70 percent, has introduced improvements in contracts and in the management of infrastructures and socio-health services.
"Luckily this will end on November 29 next", the minister concluded in her address to the regional chamber.