Oswaldo Betancort, as a deputy of the Canarian Nationalist Parliamentary Group for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, has asked the Minister of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth, about the measures planned by the Government in the face of the increased risk of social exclusion of families for not being able to cope with electricity, water, fuel bills or rising food prices.
Last October, Cáritas publicly denounced that the expenses of Canarian families have increased by 50% and that the risk of social exclusion had increased considerably in the first 6 months of the year, for not being able to cope with electricity, water, fuel bills and rising food prices, noting that the increase in the prices of basic necessities is hitting families with fewer resources in the islands hard, which is causing the demand for aid to grow.
“These circumstances - as recognized by Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias and suffered by many NGOs - become an added problem as they see their costs increase by up to 75%, having serious difficulties in providing the same coverage in all services and also meeting the increase in demand, making it difficult for them to respond”, laments Betancort.
“I am aware that in all the islands, the institutions of the third sector are experiencing serious difficulties in carrying out their work, and are crying out to heaven and demanding urgent solutions from the public administration to solve extreme situations such as the one ADISLAN is going through in Lanzarote, an association that manages disability care services on the island, a competence that belongs to this Ministry although transferred to the island councils, both being complicit in not complying with what corresponds to these people by law”, he stated.
“It is their responsibility to ensure that they are cared for, and it is unacceptable that, after almost four years of PSOE-PODEMOS government, the Cabildo of Lanzarote has still not signed the social agreement, and this has led to an indefinite strike by ADISLAN workers, due to the non-payment of their salaries, as they do not receive their salaries due to ADISLAN's lack of liquidity", says the deputy.
The reason why the workers do not receive their salaries is because ADISLAN "has a accumulated deficit - generated by the deficient services they provide and which are their responsibility - of 400,000 euros (year 2021) and until the month of October of this year they already have an accumulated deficit of 350,000 euros, in the face of which they go to banking entities in search of financing but, lacking the social agreement or any document signed by the Cabildo that guarantees the operation, they do not obtain the requested and necessary financing”, concludes Betancort.
