According to Sdp's Tuppurainen, the Minister of Social Affairs and Health should defend his administration from savings and not watch from the sidelines while others decide.
Sdp's chairman of the parliamentary group Titti Tuppurainen says that the Minister of Social Affairs and Health Kaisa Juuson (ps) ignorance of the savings in one's area of responsibility is “unparalleled”.
“It is really worrying that one of the government's most central ministers feels like he is on the sidelines when decisions are made in his administration. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is the most important portfolio for the average person,” Tuppurainen says.
Also several other representatives of Sdp and other opposition have been disgusted with Kaisa Juuso from the interview on Saturday in Helsingin Sanomat. Juuso said that the 100-million-euro cut to social care, which was decided in the framework dispute, came as a surprise to him.
The opposition left an intervening question about cuts to hospitals before the frame-up. The government already decided on them in the framework debate, but it can be expected that next Tuesday's intermediate question discussion will expand to include other social security decisions made in the framework debate. Kaisa Juuso gets into a rough fight in the conversation.
Are you going to submit a motion of no confidence to Kaisa Juuso during the discussion?
“We present a motion of no confidence to the entire government with the intervening question,” says Tuppurainen.
Tuppurainen according to the minister's responsibility is to protect the most important services from cuts, know how to prioritize things and share his vision for the future.
“On the other hand, Juuso says that he found influencing to be very difficult. Thank God we don't live in a time like a pandemic if a minister takes care of his administration like this in normal times.”
Tuppurainen remembers the time of the recession in the 1990s, when the then Minister of Social Affairs and Health Eeva Kuuskoski-Vikatmaa (center) resigned Esko Ahon (central) government because of major savings decisions in its administrative sector.
According to Tuppurainen, even then the minister felt that he was not able to influence sufficiently.
Social care Savings of 100 million euros are supposed to be made by limiting the range of social care services, but the ministry headed by Juuso does not yet know how it will be done and what services it means.
Chairman of the Left Alliance Lee Andersson writes in the message service X that Juuso's interview in HS is incomprehensible and really revealing.
According to Andersson, it is irresponsible of the other negotiators to allocate such cuts to social welfare without any kind of assessment of the consequences.
“Just as irresponsible is the responsible minister's complaining about the situation and his own situation, instead of defending his administration,” Andersson writes.
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