Moldovan financial body to check correctness of money spending for 2014 population, housing census

Chisinau, 22 March /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Pavel Filip today met representatives of state institutions, development partners, among which the United Nations Population Fund and Swiss Cooperation Office, as well as the civil society. These partners called on the government to complete the processing and publication of the results of the 2014 population and housing census from Moldova, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

At the meeting, the National Statistics Bureau (BNS) unveiled information on the present stage of the census, deficiencies discovered at this phase and measures due to be taken to complete processing the census data. According to data by the Finance Ministry, the first stage of the 2014 census amounted to 78.6 million lei. At the same time, another 8 million lei is needed for procedures of processing the collected data, in order to remunerate the staff employed to this end. The money will be provided for in the draft budget law for 2016.

The prime minister said the processes related to carrying out the census had been inadmissibly procrastinated. Filip asked to make an internal investigation into BNS, in order to identify the reasons for the unjustified extension of the process and to sue at law guilty people. At the same time, the financial inspection is to assess the correctness of the expenses made to take the census. The prime minister also demanded identifying a mechanism for checking the truthfulness of the data collected within the census.

Pavel Filip ordered summoning the national commission for  the 2014 population and dwellings census, publication of a schedule of actions on processing the gained information, as well as ensuring an efficient communication with the public in the concerned sector.

(Editor A. Raileanu)