Introductory statement by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the Government's meeting held on October 1, 2014
Dear members of the
Government!
Today,
our session will be devoted exclusively
to social issues.
The first set
of questions relates
to benefits,
subsidies and
compensations for
citizens of Ukraine.
We look
forward to the
beginning of
the heating season, respectively, people will receive utility bills.
I would ask
the
Minister for
Social Policy Liudmila Leontiivna to inform you clearly
about what
compensation
mechanisms
the Government
has already
implemented,
what privileges
and
subsidies
have been introduced
by the
Government and
what the
next steps the
Government is
going to undertake so as to help the
poorest
segments of
the population.
I’m going to speak frankly -
we are unable
to help
everyone at
once. But
after today's
meeting of the Government
we will make
the third
phase of assistance
to the most needy,
to compensate
as much as possible the
losses that
people may
suffer from
changes
in prices,
tariffs: those people
who are disabled;
those people
who are
unable to earn
themselves; those
people
who need help
from the
state. Our resources are limited,
and we will think about
how
to make
the third
phase of compensation.
This is the
first set of
social issues.
Secondly, regarding ATO
participants. We’ve held a range of meetings and conferences.
I would ask
the
Minister
to report on
how the
system aimed
at providing
the status of ATO
participants
works. The next
issue concerns the prosthesis of our guys
at home and
abroad.
The third set
of questions relates
to internally displaced
persons,
migrants.
We have
to take two decisions on IDPs
-
both for
registration
and
for
helping
these people
in order
to let them survive the winter.
The next set of issues relates to medicine, more specifically, problems the medicine
faces. We have
the catastrophic
situation
with the procurement
of drugs and
medicines.
Therefore,
we are
to consider
this matter today
and the Government is
to take corresponding decisions.
I would also inform you about these decisions.
I would ask