Voters want commitments at the questioning session of the 'industry commander' not just limited to the parliament

We appreciate the issues that the Provincial People's Council has chosen to question this time. These are issues that are receiving great attention from voters regarding the state management of mineral exploitation and the situation of mineral exploitation activities in Nghe An province. The implementation of policies to support workers and employers facing many difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the work of creating jobs for workers in Nghe An province due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

I highly appreciate the scientific and flexible management of the chairman at the question and answer session. The chairman of the session asked delegates to choose the most important issue, stating the content that needed to be asked so that the person being questioned could easily grasp the questioner's ideas. This helped the person being questioned answer correctly, without missing any ideas, directly contributing to improving the quality of questioning at this session. This is the first question and answer session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, so this success is a very favorable start for the question and answer sessions of the following sessions to be further improved and achieve even higher quality. We hope that the provincial leaders, departments, branches and sectors will continue to pay attention to implementing the solutions proposed at the question and answer session.

The implementation of policies to support employees and employers facing difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the job creation for employees in Nghe An province due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is an issue that has received special attention from voters in recent times, and has been selected by the Provincial People's Council for questioning at this session. The implementation time has raised difficulties and shortcomings in the process of implementing Resolution No. 68/NQ-CP of the Government: On a number of policies to support employees and employers facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Decision 22/2021/QD-UBND of the Provincial People's Committee "regulating policies to support employees without labor contracts and a number of other special subjects facing difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Nghe An province" has been clarified by the Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. Through the questioning session, I saw that the Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs showed a comprehensive and profound grasp of the issue, answered the questions raised by the National Assembly delegates, showed close adherence to and a firm grasp of the industry's situation; frankly acknowledged, accepted and promised to overcome the limitations in the coming time. Voters highly appreciated that through the process of receiving opinions at the grassroots level, the Provincial People's Committee has gradually revised this policy to be more suitable to practical conditions.

Also through the implementation of this policy, I suggest: In the context of budget difficulties, the issuance of policies needs to survey and review clearly the beneficiaries. Along with that, it is necessary to provide thorough training so that the grassroots do not encounter difficulties when implementing. I hope that, after receiving the recommendations of voters, local authorities and provincial People's Council delegates, the policy to support people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to be implemented by our province in a timely, transparent, and appropriate manner.

Following the question and answer session on state management of minerals at the 4th session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026, I saw that the Provincial People's Council delegates raised questions that were right on the heart of the issues that reality is raising. Regarding the answers of the Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Director of the Provincial Police and the Director of the Provincial Tax Department, they closely followed the questions and issues raised by the Provincial People's Council delegates, without avoiding them. However, looking at reality, there are some answers from the sectors that are not close to reality and have not gone into the people's wishes related to the work of granting mineral exploitation rights, the inspection work of provincial specialized agencies on mineral exploitation activities, leading to violations in the exploitation activities of some enterprises.

For example, the explanation and response of the Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, one of the conditions for granting mining licenses to enterprises must have the approval of local authorities; however, the expertise for appraisal at the commune level is not guaranteed, so in reality when granting licenses and operating, voters and people have opinions reflecting that the location of the mine license is close to the people, affecting people's lives. Therefore, it is recommended that the province pay attention, after receiving opinions from the grassroots, the provincial professional agency must return to check and re-examine whether the location of the mine is suitable or not, before deciding to grant the license. Up to now, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has not fully done this.

Regarding the response of the Director of the Provincial Tax Department, although there were discrepancies between the actual exploited reserves and the licensed reserves for tax calculation, the Tax Department has not yet proposed to the specialized agencies to advise the Provincial People's Committee on solutions and measures to overcome tax losses in mineral exploitation.

The answer of the Provincial Police Director about the role of regular police in communes has been confirmed to be very correct. However, up to now, the Public Security sector has not had any specific documents guiding the functions and powers of regular police in advising local Party committees and authorities in implementing state management in the province. Therefore, it is recommended that the Public Security sector pay attention to this issue.

During the question and answer session on the implementation of policies to support employees and employers facing difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the work of solving jobs for employees affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in the province, the questions of the Provincial People's Council delegates questioning the Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs reflected the thoughts, aspirations and concerns of people like us.

The response of the Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs also clarified many difficult and inadequacies and frankly admitted the limitations in surveying and advising the Provincial People's Committee to issue policies to specify the Central regulations on support for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic that have not covered all freelance workers.

However, I do not agree with the Department Director's answer when comparing with other provinces and think that the budgets at all levels for supporting people affected by Covid-19 are exhausted, so it is difficult to add more freelance workers. In my opinion, the policy must ensure fairness, otherwise people can share the common difficulties with the State, when the epidemic comes, everyone is affected and the difficulties are common difficulties. But it is not possible, all are freelance workers, all have no jobs, no income during the time of work stoppage, but some are supported and others are not, which is not satisfactory.