The Minister of Interior, Mr. Nikos Nouris, expressing at the same time the ambition that in this way the huge deficit that is constantly observed in the management, and which the Cypriot taxpayer is required to pay, will be covered.
The Minister, in the context of the Pancyprian Seminar of Lifesaving Examiners in Larnaca, organized by the Cyprus Lifesaving Federation, was asked by journalists about the modernized framework of management and criteria for the disposal of T/C properties, he said that "for years the Turkish Cypriot Property Management Service was observed and simply fingered as a Service which had to deal with a lot of problems, whether it was various distortions in management issues, or even in some cases, mismanagement".
The important thing, Mr. Nouris said, is that "we have proceeded, in relation to the announcement I made about a year ago, to complete a series of studies and I have submitted on Friday before the Consultative Committee, in which refugee organizations and agricultural organizations, as well as all the parliamentary parties, participate, a comprehensive proposal."
The discussion of the proposal, he added. Nouris, "will be completed within about 15 days and the intention is to immediately submit the relevant amendment bills to the House of Representatives, in order to rationalize the management of T/C properties in a way that will serve the well-meaning interests of the refugees, but we will remove all those shadows that were over the management with this particular way of management, with the introduction of grading and merit criteria."
Mr. Nouris continued by saying that "our ambition is that we will also cover the huge deficit that is constantly observed in the management, which deficit the Cypriot taxpayer has to pay".
He clarified that "we do not want to transform the guardian into a businessman, but at the same time we cannot manage a 6.1 billion euro property and record deficits in the management sector".
"These must be rationalised and this is exactly what is being achieved through the proposal that I have tabled and for which I must express my satisfaction that all the members of the Advisory Committee have expressed their satisfaction both for this initiative and for the political framework of the proposal," the Minister concluded.
(EFYs)
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