“The recovery is here”, welcomes Olivier Dussopt, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, on franceinfo on Sunday, November 7. INSEE has announced 3% growth for the third quarter of 2021 and forecasts growth of 6.25% for the year 2021. “This is the strongest quarterly growth since 1969, considers Olivier Dussopt, we are talking about historical figures. It is a recovery that is accompanied by both growth and job creation, with tens of thousands of jobs being created. Today we have an unemployment rate of 7.6%. This is the lowest in 15 years. So the recovery is there. “
The fruits of this growth will serve “to employment and to the French” and “we have planned in the 2022 budget to allocate a share of the additional revenue to the repayment of the debt that we contracted during the period of Covid-19”. If growth in 2021 was greater than 6.25%, then “all additional revenue will reduce the deficit”. The Deputy Minister of Public Accounts plans to return to a “level of public spending more in line with a prospect of gradually returning to a 3% deficit by 2027”.
Olivier Dussopt wants to be far-sighted and affirms that the government has always “a margin of maneuver in the event of difficulty”, especially if the health crisis continues. “The credits that we had planned to respond to the emergency and to finance emergency economic aid – the solidarity fund or partial activity – all these credits for 2021 have not been used up”, reminds the minister. “If they have not been consumed, it is because the activity has started again stronger than expected. We are going to cancel part of these credits, he assures, there is a part, a little over 6 billion euros, that we will keep so that at the beginning of 2022, we have some leeway in the event of difficulty. “
Public hospitals are under pressure, with this crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic. “6% of beds are closed both for lack of staff and for reasons of fatigue”. On Monday, November 8, the government will defend the Social Security financing law in the Senate. “The budget that we will present to the Senate tomorrow provides for an additional two billion euros to broaden the effects of Ségur”, says Olivier Dussopt. Last year, Ségur represented 10 billion euros in additional resources. And “For the first time in more than twenty years, we are not asking French hospitals for any cost saving measures.”
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