There are three measures of the maneuver that the Budget Committee of the Chamber asks to be removed for reasons of "regulatory nature", according to what is learned while the meeting is still in progress. Among others, the request is for the removal of article 105 which provides for rules for "making printable digital versions of school and university textbooks available at a reduced price".
According to the regulation, the Budget Commission is called upon to express the relevant opinion to be transmitted to the President of the Chamber for the verification of the content of the Budget bill, indicating any provisions to be removed due to their being extraneous to the content of the text. The removal will then be communicated to the assembly by the president of the Chamber in the afternoon session of the chamber, at 4 pm. The commission also proposes to remove a paragraph of article 69 which provided for the release of a summary document to health patients with information on the services and the corresponding tariffs provided by the accredited public or private structures and a modification regarding the assignment of personnel to support structures of the extraordinary commissioners in matters of post-disaster reconstruction.
The deadline for presenting amendments to the maneuver in the Budget Committee of the Chamber has been set for Tuesday 17 November at 6pm. The admissibility screening of the proposed amendments will be held on Monday 23rd or Tuesday 24th, with the evaluation of appeals the following day. These are the indications that come from the president of the Budget commission of Montecitorio, Giuseppe Mangialavori, at the end of the presidency.
The names of the majority rapporteurs of the text have not yet been made official in the Budget Committee. For the centre-right, however, there is talk of Angelo Rossi (FdI), Mauro D'Attis (FI), Francesco Saverio Romano (Nm) and for the League there is the hypothesis on the table that the Economics manager Alberto Gusmeroli could come from the Productive Activities commission. Today the commission defined the excerpts and established the timing of hearings and amendments.
Valditara, we work to eliminate cuts to school staff on the move
"We intend to work so that during the parliamentary process of the budget law the cut measure can be eliminated." Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said this while replying to PD MP Irene Manzi at question time. "This Government has hired around 206,000 staff: considering that around 40 thousand more teachers have already been hired for the next school year, in this legislature the teachers hired will be well more than 20 thousand compared to the previous legislature. We have also saved thousands of suitable candidates from past competitions, abandoned by the previous Government", he added.
De Pascale, the change maneuver or Regions bring government to the Consulta
"If the maneuver doesn't change, I think the Regions should take the government to the Constitutional Court." The president of Emilia-Romagna Michele de Pascale says this underlining that "on the financing of healthcare we are moving away from the Constitution, we are moving away from the constitutional provisions and the Constitution must be defended".
Schillaci, Health Fund at the highest level and continues to grow
"In this maneuver there is no word 'cuts' and for the government health is not an item of expenditure but an investment. Health is not an electoral terrain. There will be more than 20 billion from 2022 and in 2026 the increase in the Health Fund is the highest ever. The fund is at the highest level and continues to grow. In 2027, there will be 146 billion in the maneuver for the National Health Fund and the voucher is a signal that it goes where it is needed, to the elderly. It is true that for healthcare there are never enough funds, but there is awareness of the economic situation". The Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, said this at question time in the Chamber. The governor of Emilia Romagna explained that just today a ruling was released by the Consulta "on an appeal by the Emilia-Romagna Region on the Lep, for services related to people with disabilities". Appeal, he claims, won by the Region. The ruling, de Pascale further underlines, "says that the Government cannot unilaterally decide on the system for financing essential services. It cannot set objectives and then pass on the task of achieving them to the Regions without having a scheme that works either in terms of transfers or in terms of taxation". Therefore, the stated principle is that "the government cannot set the LEAs, defund the health system and shift responsibility onto the Regions". "I hope - is his conclusion - that we can review this maneuver and provide adequate funding".
"The resources foreseen in the health maneuver are insufficient": this would be, according to what we learn, the line that emerged unanimously from the conference of the Regions called in an extraordinary session to take stock of the maneuver on the occasion of the start of the parliamentary process. During the meeting, the governors asked for "an increase in the national health fund".
Giani, 'via car tax? It is useless to talk about the autonomy of the Regions'
"We are faced with a violation of the only sector in which we have real tax autonomy. For us, collecting the stamp duty in January is also essential to have the guarantees necessary to activate the mortgages for investments. Transforming it into a state transfer paid in August or September completely takes away this financial leverage, with a loss for Tuscany estimated at between 50 and 60 million euros. If we lose the tax autonomy on the stamp duty, we lose both the resources and the principle. It is useless to talk of autonomy of the Regions if we then proceed in this direction". Thus the Tuscan governor Eugenio Giani regarding the Maneuver. For Giani "another strong critical issue concerns article 78 and the centralization of fees on water resources. The renewal of hydroelectric concessions represented a fundamental income for the territories: charging the State between 50 and 80% of these fees is an extremely negative choice, which penalizes regional budgets and contradicts any stimulus to the development of renewable energy sources".
Meloni meets Orsini at Palazzo Chigi, focus on the maneuver
The president of Confindustria Emanuele Orsini was this morning - as far as we know - at Palazzo Chigi for a meeting with the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The topics related to the maneuver were also at the center of the conversation.
"We talked about things that interest the country, obviously industry, the budget law, and another topic that is fundamental for me, that of energy", said the president of Confindustria after the meeting. It was "a frank and constructive dialogue. Certainly positive", he indicates. Participating in the presentation of the agreement with Sanpaolo to support the internationalization of companies, the industrial leader reiterates how Confindustria now deems necessary "a long-term industrial plan, what the country and Europe need at the moment".
Meanwhile, the majority is working on changes to the text of the budget law. "If there is something to correct, to improve" in the budget, "Parliament and the Commissions exist for this reason. We will begin the discussion next week in the Chamber with the opposition as well, we will see if it will be necessary to correct or improve", said the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, responding, at the ceremony for 4 November in Redipuglia (Gorizia), to a question on the criticism of the cuts in the budget.
"Healthcare has not been cut, it has still been increased - the minister specified - I invite you to make a comparison between the resources of the National Health Fund that the current government has put in place and those of previous governments. As far as schools are concerned, there is a forecast of a reduction in hiring, given that the number of students continues to decrease". If with the demographic decline "there are fewer students it is also normal that there are fewer professors". According to Ciriani, the controversies over the school "are a bit exaggerated and out of place, but it's right that it should be like this. We discuss, we always have: in these four years the budget has entered in a certain way, then it came out not distorted but always correct. If it is necessary to correct" the text "we'll see, we're here for this reason".
"We had a long and fruitful meeting with the independent union Confsal. As regards the issue of pensions, I reiterated Forza Italia's willingness to examine the possibility of improving" the maneuver in order to accommodate the world of pensioners, says the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, at the end of a meeting with the Confsal delegation on the maneuver. "Even with regards to schools, we have expressed our willingness to try to improve the contents of the text approved by the Council of Ministers in parliament", he continues. "After this meeting with the union - he adds - we have the Forza Italia meeting and we will evaluate how our availability and our commitment can be concretely transformed into concrete choices also by quantifying the interventions that can be made".
