The Government yesterday approved the second budget revision, which saw additional resources allocated for the payment of salaries and pensions until the end of the year, as well as cuts to the amounts dedicated to ministries and to local authorities.
Finance Minister Gheorghe Ialomițianu said after the Government
meeting that the cuts to the budget allocated for certain public
authorities “would not preclude any public institution from ending
the financial year problem-free.”
He gave the example of the Finance Ministry, whose budget was cut
by 326.5 million RON as a result of interest rate savings.
Ialomițianu gave assurances there was no danger of non-payment of
salaries in the education sector as a result of the cuts to funds
allocated for local budgets, with this budget adjustment being
justified through the savings made from the amounts allocated from
VAT and from the tax.
The Labour Ministry received the largest amounts as a result of the
revision, with a further 987 million RON being allocated for the
payment of pensions, of social benefits granted to single-parent
families, and of child benefits.
The Government added 502 million RON to the amounts allocated to
the Agriculture Ministry for projects funded from non-repayable EU
funds “so that the EU money can be spent and attracted by insuring
the necessary co-funding from the state budget.” As for arrears,
Ialomițianu said 256 million euros had been allocated for the
payment of healthcare debts.