The Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Service seeks to promote a change in the body of the Administration that also transforms the way in which public services are provided. José Luis Escrivá has already presented his main lines of action in the two chambers of representation, in which he intends to give technology a prominent role, while focusing on strengthening the public body with the elimination of the tax rate. replacement already cutting. the times between exams. This lack of personnel is more pressing in certain territories and, specifically, the situation on the islands is of concern, where some political forces identify that prices or the absence of housing are the main reason for the lack of cash.
It was the senator of the Confederal Left Parliamentary Group (GPIC), Juanjo Ferrer, who put this issue of relief in the minister’s absence in the Senate Commission by pointing out that the quality of the public services provided in Ibiza or Formentera was lower than which was enjoyed in other parts of the Peninsula. The spokesperson for the group that brings together Más Madrid, Eivissa i Formentera, Senat, Geroa Bai, Compromís and the Gomera Socialist Group assured that the situation had worsened as access to housing has become more complicated in recent years and called on the responsible for Public Function to study the possibility of extending the Canary Islands’ insularity supplement to the Balearic Islands to alleviate the effect.
“They are right, the islands, as I have also been able to verify, have a problem in the provision of positions in the General Administration of the State” Escrivá admitted in the reply, but he decided to analyze in depth what are the causes that have brought to the current situation before opting for a solution. “What is true and indisputable is that there are areas of Spain where it is much more difficult to fill positions for public officials, they are the islands, but they are also other territories and I have my intuitions, but I think it is advisable to look at it in a rigorous way. “and systematically” he reasoned. “I commit that at the Ministry of Public Function we are going to analyze this matter in depth so that the solutions we find respond to the causes that are identified.”
In this sense, the head of the portfolio recalled that through certain supplements the cost increases could be covered, but it does not respond to the lack of available housing. Likewise, he pointed out that the Administration has other problems attracting talent in these regions that go beyond the scope of housing. “When you look at where it costs more to fill civil servants, you realize that this element usually appears as central, which does not mean that it is the only one by any means. There are certain autonomous communities or islands where it costs a lot to fill positions and we observe that it does not “We are attractive enough for the local population,” he admitted.
The person in charge of Public Function promised to work with the Ministry of Territorial Policy headed by the Canarian Ángel Víctor Torres and to treat it as a priority aspect. “It is an issue to which we are going to give the highest priority because I believe that it is very important to address the insufficient resources of officials on the islands because it is a reality that has deteriorated over time and that must be addressed with determination. and radicalism” said the minister in the Upper House.
According to Government projections, in eight years almost 60% of the current staff of the General State Administration will have retired, so the public sector must face the challenge of attracting young profiles while addressing flexible retirement options for Civil servants like the incentive to delay, that is, they extend their working career beyond the legal retirement age. According to data from the Central Personnel Registry provided by the Ministry, in 2023 the workforce of the state public sector would have decreased by 10% compared to 2012, although in the last year the volume of calls would have led to more than 520,000 public employees in this range.
The Executive must also advance in the stabilization of interim personnel to reduce the rate of public temporary employment, which remains at around 30% compared to the progress that the private sector has registered since the approval of the labor reform in 2021. In addition, this is a commitment signed with the European Commission within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. In 2024, 300,000 workers must be regularized, of which they have already stabilized about 225,000, so the Public Service is confident that they will meet this milestone without difficulty.
