According to the President of the Court of Audit, Arno Visser, there is “serious deficiencies” in Treasury, Defence and Security and Justice.
He said Wednesday at the presentation of the supporting documents for 2015 in Parliament.
The Administration has major ICT problems include the impact of significant changes in the system. At Defence there are problems with the maintenance of equipment and in Security and Justice, the finances are not in order.
“Trying to be there to get a grip on so far not sufficiently successful,” said Visser. However, he says that 99.7 percent of the expenditure of the ministries are lawfully and with this high percentage scores “in historical and international terms good” country.
The Court also notes that the management of the ministries “significant” improvement.
Pain
Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem (Finance) Wednesday sent the supporting documents to the House. The three failures do according to the minister pain.
“We are in three major implementation services such as defense, tax authorities and the police to behapstukken some problems, which are at the top of our agenda. It is in itself not new that there are problems,” said Dijsselbloem .
the file shows that the national police have put a deficit of 72 million books last year. The police leadership cites the shortage itself “worrisome.”
Debt
The justification documents show that the government has decreased for the first time since 2006 in 2015 and the budget deficit is not so since 2009 been small.
the public debt last year amounted to 65.1 percent (442 billion) of GDP in 2014 was 68.2 per cent (452 billion) of GDP.
Top condition
“the public finances have still not the peak condition of Dafne Schippers when they last world sprint. it takes time to reach that level. But all in all, the annual report for 2015 shows the yield of the difficult measures in recent years, “Dijsselbloem says.
the minister also points that the size of the economy last year for the first time was higher than before the financial crisis in 2008, as the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in February already calculated. That’s stronger growth than previously estimated
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The government attributes the growth to “the difficult measures’ that have been taken, such reforms and cuts. CBS mainly reflects a growing world economy which exports, the growth engine of the Netherlands, also attracted a lot. Also, consumers are going to spend more money
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Budget deficit
The budget deficit declined from 2.4 percent to 1.8 percent of GDP.
Despite the lower gas revenues due to the reduction of the gas in Groningen, the economy grew by 2 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year. There were also unforeseen expenses such as the 646 million euros that the government took off for the reception of refugees
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Jobs
Under pressure from the opposition assumes additional 250 million structural annually since 2015 to the Ministry of Security and Justice.
the unemployment rate fell compared to 2014, but was 6.9 percent of non-working age population is still high. The number of jobs has not been so high in the past year in the Netherlands. the limit of ten million jobs has been achieved in the fourth quarter.
The housing market is also picking up. Prices have now arrived at pre-crisis level and the number of sales increased by 16 percent compared with a year earlier.
Justification
On the third Wednesday in May, the Accountability Day, the day on which the government traditionally accountable to Parliament for the previous calendar year. This involves both the use of taxpayers’ money by the government, as to the policy.
The justification documents also show that healthcare costs are under control. In 2015 600 million was spent less than budgeted.
This is the result of cheaper purchasing of medicines and lower costs for GP and hospital care. Until 2013 there was just almost always too much spent in care.
Reflection
Fisher warned on for all sorts of changes without making clear what the consequences are.
He called on politicians to “reflection” to ahead of next year’s elections again proposing all sorts of plans without making clear what the consequences are, for example, citizens and the functioning of democracy.
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