PSD Labor Minister Marius Budai appeared irritated on Friday in his first public appearance on the Voluntari nursing home scandal after HotNews.ro told him that the deal with the NGO that reported the horrors had not been finalized , as he claimed. , but was unilaterally denounced by the Ministry of Labor. Budai accused the NGO of presenting reports to the press before sending them to the Ministry, but he did not know what measures the institution he heads had taken.

In this whole scandal, there was no resignation of the top, but only two dismissals in ANPIS and AJPIS, bodies subordinate to the Ministry of Labor, to resign at the request of the Prime Minister, Marcel Cholaka.

• “Regarding this Legal Resource Center (LRC), which is a public organization, no protocol was canceled, but another protocol was not drawn up, because the current protocol lost its validity, and in the design of the first protocol, which was signed in 2020 No. The tender procedure was conducted by the Ministry work with this NGO, other civil society NGOs were not invited.”, This was announced by Minister Marius Budai on Friday.

Even the statement of the Ministry of Labor, which HotNews.ro pointed out at the press briefing, contradicts this, a fact that annoyed Buday.

• SEE THE ADDRESS WHERE THE CONTRACT WITH CRJ WAS TERMINATED

VIDEO (from min. 38:20) Minister of Labor HotNews.ro: Where do you want to go?

Below is the full dialogue between the Minister of Labor and a HotNews.ro journalist:

• HotNews.ro journalist: Mr. Minister, there is contradictory information in what you are telling us. The head of the CRJ sent a request from a young woman from Afumati in September, they sent you reports in January-February, and the Ministry of Labor was informed in writing by the Center on March 31 that this agreement was ending. You said it stopped on its own and you didn’t continue it. Falsehood.

Marius Budai: Well, I didn’t continue anymore.

• HotNews.ro journalist: This contradicts even the address you signed and the information provided to you by the Ministry of Labor, where you actually stopped.

Marius Budai: In which I informed them..no..no..did you read the address? Are you reading it carefully? We notified them within the statutory 90 days before the end of the period that we were no longer continuing this protocol.

• HotNews.ro journalist: No, this is a unilateral denunciation, Minister, from the Ministry of Labour.

Marius Budai: This is a term in the law.

• HotNews.ro journalist: You unilaterally condemned him, not that he would stop. It ended in January 2024. Let’s face the truth..

Marius Budai: He stopped anyway, I reported him legally..Okay, where do you want to go?

• HotNews.ro journalist: Where do I want to go..you got from September, then January and February..ANPIS and AJEPIS are under the Ministry of Labor which you head..

Marius Budai: I understand from your words that if this center was not in Romania, we would not have control.

• HotNews.ro journalist: What did you do with all these reports?

Marius Budai: Here are the control reports I posted..

• HotNews.ro journalist: You claim to be shocked now, but when those people showed you the reports, you weren’t shocked?

Marius Budai: No, because these people were first presented with the reports in the press, and then they brought them to us, and in the meantime, while we were in control, the malfunctions were fixed.

• HotNews.ro journalist: For the first time in the press in a day or two..

Marius Budai: I don’t know how many days.

• HotNews.ro journalist: But does it matter? What is more important: publicizing something terrible or wonderful in the media or helping people?

Marius Budai: It is more important to prevent… Well, yes, but don’t go to the press first and announce that there will be a control.

• HotNews.ro journalist: Let’s look again at the forest for the trees. What was worse?

Marius Budai: This is exactly what I want to offer you if you want to open your eyes and see

• HotNews.ro journalist: It’s too late to offer..

Marius Budai: This is your opinion

• HotNews.ro journalist: Not to mention that you make another accusation here in the appeal.. you call the reason for the unilateral denunciation: “the existence of situations, which were noticed over time by the directors of the DGASP, in which representatives of the CRJ revealed themselves to be employees of the Ministry of Labor.” This is a very serious charge. How do you try them?

Marius Budai: We check them for what is behind these requests. I didn’t take care of it myself

• HotNews.ro journalist: Which DGASP directors have noticed this over time?

Marius Budai: I will post it publicly, I don’t have this information with me now. But I repeat because I want us to understand each other very clearly and I don’t want to go beyond the moment. To be able to react quickly, and I repeat, this case happened, and I presented to you that I want many other NGOs to be involved in this activity, to the documentation that exists in the Ministry of Labor before this public scandal, let’s have many more public organizations that will be engaged in this activity, and not a contract of some minister, no matter who, with one public organization. Why one in Romania?

• HotNews.ro journalist: Does this have anything to do with the horror of what is happening? These people pointed out some things that shocked you and you wouldn’t…

Marius Budai: This is relevant, maybe there are others. Listen to me until the end, I have enough patience to listen to you. This is an extremely difficult situation, each of us can get emotional, blame and do.

I tell you as follows. What it is? how is it You announce on TV so that a person has time to correct those shortcomings, because it is clear that after that there will be control.

• HotNews.ro journalist: After being announced on TV, do you manage there? Did you call ANPIS and AJPIS?

Marius Budai: Obviously, obviously, there are control acts, I don’t have all of them with me now.

• HotNews.ro journalist: And why didn’t you come up with a situation for us to see what kind of controls you required after the CRJ reports? OK, got it wrong (on CRJ), first published in the press, but we took action..

Marius Budai: I will say right away.. there were.. a little mixed up the papers, but I am quoting from memory. More than 500 centers out of 756 were controlled. 1781 measures were assigned.

• HotNews.ro journalist: Are these centers from Voluntari? You informed us yesterday about these control measures across the country, but you don’t have any center for us.

Marius Budai: Now you ask me if I did something, and now it doesn’t suit you if I tell you that I did something.

• HotNews.ro journalist: In these centers, Mr. Minister…

Marius Budai: Control was carried out in these centers, I presented in the preamble of my discussion from February, and these documents were presented to the prosecutor’s office, DIICOT, MAI and so on.

Labor Minister Marius Budai announced on Friday that he was “shocked” by the situation in the three houses of horror in Voluntari and Afumat, but that the main responsibility was going to the Ilfov District Council, which reports to DGASPC, the institution that makes the monthly payment for the services provided by these centers .

He provided reporters with photos provided by the three shelters when they applied for operating licenses, photos showing living conditions in luxury hotels, and expressed his displeasure.