Santo Domingo.- The number of employees who will be dismissed with the execution of the Public Administration Reform and Modernization Plan (Reformap), which includes the merger of several ministries and the elimination of others, is a fact that the Government still does not know despite the fact that President Luis Abinader has already presented the project.
According to the Minister of Public Administration, Sigmund FreundNext week, the relevant evaluations will begin with the institutions to be restructured to determine who will be dismissed, relocated or reconfirmed in their positions.
“I cannot tell you today how many employees are duplicated, or how many employees we are going to dismiss or how many employees will continue or transfer because that is an exercise that we will be doing together with those institutions starting next week,” said Freund.
During his participation in the Corripio Media Group Luncheon, the head of the MAP stated that they are in a stage of gathering information that will allow determining the duplication of functions in each case in order to subsequently reorganize it.
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In this regard, he said that the time determined to complete the merger or elimination of the estimated institutions will depend on the complexity of each one and the legislative aspect that justifies them.
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“There are some institutions that we understand that in about two or three months we will be solving… now, cases like the Minerd and the Mescytapart from the legislative aspect, the procedural part will take a little more time,” he said, estimating that the complete merger of these ministries will take between two to three years.
Reformap
It is recalled that last Monday, President Luis Abinader led the presentation of a second reform for the unification of ministries and other state institutions with the aim of continuing the restructuring and rationalization of the public administration.
He said that this proposal also seeks to eliminate duplications in public institutions to be more efficient, coherent and better aligned with government priorities.
The head of state noted that most of the proposals will go to the National Congress for approval, but from an economic point of view “the necessary savings can be made.”
The mergers considered are the Ministries of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCYT) and Education (MINERD); the Ministries of Finance and Economy, Planning and Development will give rise to the Ministry of Finance and Economy.
The Administrative Ministry of the Presidency will be abolished and transformed into the Administrative Secretariat under the Presidency.
The Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD) will be absorbed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Similarly, the National Council for Agricultural Research will be integrated into the Dominican Institute for Agricultural Investment.
The Social Subsidy Administrator (ADESS) will merge with the Supérate program; while the Presidential Commission for Support to Provincial Development, FONVIVIENDA and Familia Feliz will merge with the Ministry of Housing.
Likewise, the Economic Dining Halls will be integrated into the Presidential Plan Against Poverty; and the National Authority for Maritime Affairs will merge with the National Aquarium so that both will form what will be the Oceanographic Institute.
Strategic Eliminations
Among these eliminations are the Savings Bank for Workers and Monte de Piedad, the Sectoral Commission for the Reform and Modernization of the Agricultural Sector, the Dominican Development Council Abroad (CONDEX), the National Council of Population and Family and the Presidential Commission for Port Modernization and Security.
Likewise, the Business Commission for Mortgage and Trust Development, the International Advisory Commission on Science and Technology and the National Directorate for the Promotion and Development of Crafts (FONDEARTE).
