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Government’s regular press briefing about Déli train station, home subsidies and education
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Budapest, January 21 (MTI) – The government will issue two new decrees on February 3 detailing the regulations of the new home purchase subsidy programme, the government office chief said at a regular press briefing on Thursday. Also the government has asked the development ministry to draft a study on the possibility of demolishing Budapest’s Déli railway station and converting it into a park. The government’s plans to restructure and eliminate more than 70 state-owned institutions and bodies financed from the central budget in a bid to cut red tape, government office chief János Lázár said. The government is ready to help troubled dairy producers, many of whom may leave the industry due to low milk prices.
Government mulls demolishing Déli train station, converting into park
The government has asked the development ministry to draft a study on the possibility of demolishing Budapest’s Déli railway station and converting it into a park, government chief János Lázár said on Thursday.
Commenting on another transport-related subject, he told his regular press briefing that once the state takes over the suburban railways HÉV network, it will be modernised and new lines could be built.
Government to streamline 70 state institutions
Talks will begin between the Prime Minister’s Office and the various ministries within the next few days on how some institutions can be merged into ministries, how outsourcing can be eliminated and the system operated more cheaply and simply, Lázár told his regular weekly press briefing on Thursday. Some 50,000 people are staffed at these institutions, he said.
The government will only make a few exceptions, but the restructuring should apply to all state offices. The bodies that the government will certainly not close down are the police, the military, the tax office NAV and the schools agency Klik. It will also keep intact the State Health Supply Centre and the Social Chief Directorate, he added.
Those most certainly affected include the National Health Insurance Fund OEP and the pension management institute. The government will make its final decisions on February 10, he said.