Questioning at the 4th session and impressive statements

Many places have "sustainable" planning: Questioning Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi, on November 3, delegate Duong Khac Mai - Dak Nong delegation said: "The work of planning and management of state planning for urban development has achieved important new steps. However, in many places, the quality of planning is not guaranteed, especially the situation of planning not being implemented for many years, also known as suspended planning, and many places have been suspended sustainably, causing waste of social resources, hindering the overall development of the country, causing public outrage and people...".

“Urban flooding is everywhere, when it rains it floods, when it doesn’t rain it also floods”: Delegate Tran Van Lam - Bac Giang delegation emphasized this when questioning the Minister of Construction. According to him, currently urban flooding occurs everywhere, from high mountains like Lao Cai, Da Lat to coastal areas like Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho or in the middle like Hanoi, when it rains it floods and when it doesn’t rain it also floods.

“People repair their houses in deep alleys but inspectors still know, why don’t they detect violations in high-rise buildings?”: Delegate Nguyen Thi Thuy – Bac Kan delegation questioned the Minister of Construction: “Voters reported that there are cases where people repair their houses in deep alleys but construction inspectors still know, while many large projects, even high-rise buildings right on the street, violate construction regulations but the authorities do not detect them. Voters wonder whether there is corruption or negativity in this matter or not?”.

“Careless handling of bad and toxic information leads to PR for people who want to burn temples”: Delegate Do Chi Nghia - Phu Yen delegation questioned the Minister of Information and Communications: “Preventing the harmful effects of bad and toxic information on cyberspace is not easy. Handling a case of false information is also very hard and difficult, and if not handled carefully, it can lead to PR for people who want to burn temples, want to be famous...”.

“On what basis are Smart phones supported when people need plants and seeds?”: Delegate Ha Sy Dong – Quang Tri delegation questioned the Minister of Information and Communications: The Minister said that he would support each person in ethnic minority areas with a Smart phone. How many people will receive this support and how much is the expected amount? On what basis are Smart phones supported when people need plants, seeds, infrastructure for production and many conditions to improve their quality of life?

“Dirty air poisons the lungs, bad information poisons the brain”: Talking with delegate Do Chi Nghia, Phu Yen delegation about the need to have “resistance” to bad and toxic information, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung expressed his agreement with the delegate and said that everything needs resistance. In cyberspace, news is like air, too much bad news means the air is polluted. Every morning we read information on the internet, it poisons us, air poisons the lungs, information poisons the brain…”.

"We must retain the elite force in the State apparatus" - Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc responded with the view that public service is the same as private service, as long as it contributes and dedicates to society. He said: "According to my perception and what I have learned, the countries around us such as Singapore, pay civil servants much higher salaries than non-state enterprises, because it will retain good people to create policies, plan strategies and to manage the state in the best way, promote and lay the foundation for development".

"Increasing salaries and allowances for teachers is an urgent matter": "Sharing the burden" with the Minister of Home Affairs, answering questions from National Assembly deputies about the education sector's staffing standards and the lack of local teacher recruitment sources, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that to prevent and reduce the number of teachers quitting their jobs, the Ministry will propose increasing salaries and allowances for the teaching profession, especially for preschool and primary school teachers. "This is an urgent matter to improve the quality of life for teachers, in the spirit of "practice is the only way to survive", said Minister Son.

“There are still gaps in controlling the assets of corrupt subjects”: Delegate Pham Nam Tien – Dak Nong delegation questioned the Government Inspector General: “Currently, up to 40-50% of assets have not been recovered in cases under the direction of the Central Steering Committee, because the value of a corruption case can be up to hundreds of billions, thousands of billions of VND. Meanwhile, we have only controlled assets in the political system, while assets under the names, occupied or owned by relatives of corrupt subjects are still a huge gap, difficult to control…”.