«The so-called maneuverable mass of the 2025 Finance Bill is around 300 million euros , despite the overall budget reaching 10 billion ». This is the first number of the regional accounting document illustrated today on Radiolina by Giuseppe Meloni , the councilor for Programming and vice president of the Council. The Democratic representative of the Executive was a guest of “A tu per tu”, where he also spoke about healthcare, the majority's work in this first year of the legislature, cuts from Rome and the privatization of airports. Here is the full interview .
Overview
The 300 million of "maneuverable mass" are what remains of a budget that has been blocked by healthcare, whose costs have been entirely borne by Sardinia since 2006, together with transport (this was the Prodi-Soru agreement at the time of the opening of the Revenue Dispute). Add to this the coverage of salaries and multi-year programming commitments. All things considered, the money that can actually be spent is just 3% of the budget . The Sardinians' right to healthcare alone "weighs" for four billion euros, a figure that continues to rise year after year. And when asked specifically about the possibility of a cut, the assessor said: "Healthcare, which requires continuous resources, represents a central challenge in the regional budget. Certainly, there are tangible resources, such as the fund for essential levels of assistance. It is necessary to improve the quality of services rather than reduce funding. The reforms in the health sector, although they have not immediately transformed the services, are to be considered a first step to rebuild a more efficient system, especially in light of the cuts imposed by Rome". Meloni, still on the maneuver under examination by the Regional Council in these days, admitted: "It is not easy to program 300 million to implement the Regional Development Plan, which makes careful choices that must be planned over time indispensable". Among the priorities of the majority, "education and support for families in difficulty, also through the increase in allocations for the Reis, the Sardinian citizen's income".
