The Minister of Social Welfare of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Isabel Martín, has reported that the Cabildo has made the payment of pending invoices to ADISLAN, once the administrative difficulties have been resolved.
Martín explained that the audit carried out over the last few months detected several inaccuracies in the criteria for the invoicing presented by ADISLAN: “Some concepts reflected in the invoices clashed with the provisions of the Dependency Agreement signed between the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote, which provides legal and economic support to the service provided by ADISLAN.”
Given this circumstance, both the Social Welfare and Intervention services have had to proceed to evaluate the consequences of such discrepancies and, in addition, establish mechanisms that would allow, with full legal guarantees, to proceed with the payment of invoices once the errors detected have been corrected.
In this sense, Isabel Martín proposed to the Island Government Council, held on May 17, the adoption of an agreement that would cover the decisions that the heads of the Social Welfare area should adapt, and it was this Friday, May 28, when the invoices could be reported by the technicians of the service after the verification work carried out.
“We deeply regret the uncertainty suffered by the staff, by the users and their families as a result of the delay in the payment of invoices, but the results of the audit prevented us from acting differently," said Martín.
Audit.- The counselor has pointed out that these delays will not occur again since the errors noted by the audit have already been corrected and ADISLAN has been informed of the guidelines to follow so that the invoicing can be attended to in a timely manner.
Martín recalled that this unpleasant situation is a direct consequence of the abandonment suffered by the area for too many years, to the point that the main services provided by the Cabildo in the area of Social Welfare “are being carried out without any legal support, since there are no contracts that give them the necessary coverage. We have even had to resort to the Canary Islands Advisory Council to unlock this inherited situation.”
The head of Social Welfare has insisted that this is a complex situation of extraordinary importance: “We are providing services without any type of contract for an amount that exceeds 2.7 million euros per year. The lack of rigor with which we had been acting now forces us to extreme controls to detect and correct situations that we have not created but to which we have to respond with responsibility.”
“They have never believed in dependency care services and have treated them merely as a clientelist machinery to do favors when it comes to attending to recognized rights with the rigor and quality that the law demands and the citizenship deserves,” he concluded.
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