The government delegate, Pedro Blanco, said today that the Government of Pedro Sánchez transformed Galicia into a “land of opportunities” thanks, among other actions, to the execution of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which left in Galicia 3,800 million euros. Pedro Blanco today took stock of the impact of the Recovery Plan in Galicia about three years after its implementation and presented the new tool of the Ministry of Economy that allows the monitoring of the execution of these funds.
The delegate detailed that, of the 3,800 million that the Government allocated to Galicia through the Recovery Plan, 1,814 million were managed directly by the different ministries and another 1,545 were transferred to the Xunta in the exercise of the distribution of competences: “With these figures in hand, the commitment of co-governance of this Government is clear, since the funds are practically managed at 50% between the Government itself and the Autonomous Administration,” said Pedro Blanco. The total amount is achieved by adding the 441 million derived from the economic and social compensation fund for the pandemic.
Deepening the data, Pedro Blanco highlighted the more than 1,000 calls that were opened since the implementation of the Recovery Plan that already resulted in more than 42,000 beneficiaries, among which are all kinds of entities: “From large companies to SMEs, but also associations and individuals, passing through each and every one of the 313 concellos that Galicia has”. Pedro Blanco explained that 42% of the beneficiaries of this aid are SMEs, which means that one out of every two euros mobilized goes to small and medium-sized enterprises, “the best response for those who doubt the positive impact on our business fabric of the Recovery Plan”.
Pedro Blanco stressed that Galicia is the sixth community that receives the most funds, and that the Recovery Plan was designed “tailored to the demands and needs of the Galicians and Galicians, attending to many of their historical demands that seemed already forgotten”. “Thus, we can say, also in response to those who insist on denying investments in works, that 50% of investments are destined to infrastructures and actions of urban and rural agenda,” said Pedro Blanco.
New tool
The government delegate welcomed the Elisa tool, which allows citizens to know at all times the level of implementation of the Recovery Plan. With it you can see the historical evolution of the calls and resolutions, investments in the community and at the national level, the beneficiaries, the typology of projects financed and the different sectors benefited.
Pedro Blanco defined this new tool as “one more step in this exercise of transparency on the deployment of funds, something that is the responsibility of all administrations, because all are beneficiaries and all execute this plan”. In this regard, the delegate expressed his desire that the Xunta de Galicia “follow this example of transparency, taking into account that the Council of Contas itself sometimes affected its management of them, as well as it would also be good to facilitate access to information to know the levels of execution and the destination of the funds granted”.
“In fact,” said the delegate, “we are concerned about significant delays, such as the one indicated in the last report of the Ombudsman, on the tardiness in the resolution of aid for the rental bonus for young people, when it is a manifest problem in Galicia or, equally, the delay in the execution of funds in rehabilitation and in the construction of social housing, which they then presume”.
The delegate pledged to continue working so that the funds reach all the places of Galicia, “as they are already doing”, because “the investments and the plans of the Government arrive the every house of Galicia in the form of a scholarship to study, a pension, aid for rehabilitation, aid to digitize its SME or the renovation of its street”.