Pierrakakis for pensions: Great management exercise – The State can solve problems

The Minister of State and Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis characterized the resolution of the outstanding pensions issue as a “very important public management exercise”. Speaking at the event on the course of liquidating the outstanding pensions, he referred to the perfect cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and in particular with Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and Deputy Minister Panos Tsakloglou.

Furthermore, he spoke of “a great legacy of the Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which reflects the philosophy of the Prime Minister and has to do with how the State itself comes and solves problems that were not expected to be solved”.

The Minister of State and Digital Governance commented on the great degree of difficulty of the program, characteristically noting that “the vaccination program is an easier exercise, in the sense that you have to solve something that is already running, keep it running in the interim, but at the same time you change completely.”

In closing, he pointed out that from 9 million digital transactions in 2018, this year we will have a billion, explaining that “this is just the beginning. These pending issues come to establish the great change that is happening as a whole in state-citizen relations. The state will change and the mandate received from the citizens will be fully implemented.”

The entire speech of Kyriakos Pierrakakis

“Mister President,

Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers,

Dear friends,

Will you allow me, Mr. President, to start with a story about a discussion we had before 2019, when during the years of the official opposition under your leadership the whole program of the digital transformation of the country was being planned – when we were trying to establish what the major IT problems facing Greece.

On the scale, after all, this was the first. That is, the fact that on the one hand we want to move to what we call the 4th Industrial Revolution, but at the same time pensions cannot be paid on time. So, how to be able to implement this dualism at the same time, of solving pending issues on the one hand and jumping into tomorrow on the other. So we have to start from something like this.

And so, in this context, when this planning started, from the first day of the Government, the issue that is being resolved today was set as a goal. Along the way, I remember the conversation we had with Kostis Hatzidakis, as soon as he had taken over, in the first week, where what Mr. Tsakloglou said really happened: “whatever it takes” was the Minister’s order. We had the presumption of vaccines, the vaccination system in our hands, a new exercise in public management.

And from there, the Minister of Labor’s point of view was to take everything smart we can from this plan and apply it to this particular case, given of course that it will not be the same. Why; And let me say this: the vaccination program is an easier exercise than the pension program, in the following sense: in vaccination you are drawing on blank paper, it is something new. Here you have to fix something that is already running, keep it running in the interim, but at the same time change it completely.

This is what was achieved. And this is a very great public management exercise, it includes elements from the vaccine such as: the control tower, such as being able to measure. What you can’t measure you can’t change, you can’t reform. What you can’t capture you can’t improve.

So, for the first time, a rudimentary and complete capture of what was happening with the pension flow began. Along the way, we included a series of digital tools, for which many people deserve many congratulations: the EFKA Governor, the competent Governor, the General Secretariat of Public Administration Information Systems, IDIKA, the project manager for solving the issue of pending pensions .

But, I think something very important that remains as a legacy, and let me dwell on this, as a great legacy of the Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis: it is this new breath in the concept of Public Management. Something that previously did not exist, reflects the philosophy of the Prime Minister and has to do with how the State itself comes and solves problems that were not expected to solve them.

And so, while in the past we were constantly looking for inspiration and ideas from the private sector – which of course has a huge contribution both here and from the cooperating companies, sometimes and increasingly the private sector now comes to the State to ask “how did you do A or B ». And this will be such an example, and for that the Minister deserves many congratulations as well.

Once again, congratulations. This is just the beginning. These pending issues come to establish the great change that is happening as a whole in state-citizen relations. We started from 9 million digital transactions in 2018 to have one billion digital transactions this year. Citizens will save over 100 lines and that is a very large part of this equation. But it’s only the beginning. The Recovery Fund comes in all sectors with Social Security as a key pillar to change everything. The state will change and the mandate received from the citizens will be fully implemented.

Thank you very much”.

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