“This is due to a bad motivational system in the public sector, because the culture of punishment prevailed. And in the case of Teltonika, you saw that there were certain statements, not why the problem arose and how to solve it, but who is to blame and who should be punished,” V. Šilinskas told LRT radio on Friday.
“We often wave the stick, then people often try to avoid the stick. And there was no incentive to do it. In business there is both a stick and a carrot. (…) There is no carrot for a job well done (in the public sector – BNS), the minister said.
According to him, the prevailing attitude among civil servants is that they can be punished for taking the initiative if they make mistakes.
“People need to feel safe that they have the ability to do. And when doing especially big things that no one has done, both to make a mistake and to admit that they made a mistake, to correct themselves,” he said.
According to him, there is a lack of motivation in the public sector – a study by the Ministry of the Interior showed that employees enter the civil service with “burning eyes”, but after five years their frustration begins to grow, eventually turning into apathy.
“The most difficult thing when I came to the public sector was not to deal with civil servants, I would single out employees who try to help and do, but with bureaucrats – people who try not to do,” said the minister.
Proposes a bureaucracy reduction subcommittee in the Seimas
According to Rasa Budbergytė, a member of the Social Democratic faction in the Seimas, the Seimas could take a more proactive approach to reducing bureaucracy. She proposed to consider the proposal to establish a special subcommittee.
“I really see that our parliamentary oversight in this area is very weak. Indeed, all parliamentary oversight committees can do this by area, and they do to some extent. (…) However, perhaps it would be appropriate to create a special subcommittee for this issue, let’s say, under the Economic Committee. The functions of the Audit Committee could also be expanded,” R. Budbergytė said to LRT radio on Friday.
She also testified that the faction promises to meet with the heads of the companies and institutions responsible for the Teltonikas project.
“The situation really signals that the outgoing Government made a lot of mistakes in dealing with this situation and did not do certain things,” said the politician.
The new Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas said this week that a special bureaucracy reduction commission will be created in the new Government, where representatives of business, society and the Government will work.
Lukas Savickas, candidate for the Minister of Economy and Innovation, also promises to supervise large investment projects.
The owner of Teltonika, A. Paukštys, announced a week ago that he was stopping the 3.5 billion the construction of the Teltonika High-Tech Hill factory park worth 100,000 euros, in the face of bureaucratic obstacles in obtaining the necessary electrical power for production and the authorities being unable to change the purpose of the semiconductor factory plot to an industrial one.
The state company “Via Lietuva” received a lot of criticism for not allowing the construction of power lines in the road protection zone. The company hastily drafted changes to legislation that would allow strategic state projects to lay cables next to roads.
The telecommunications company “Telia Lietuva” previously reported that the construction of its data center has been stalled for several years due to the lack of coordination of the project with “Via Lietuva”.
The Lithuanian Confederation of Renewable Resources stated this week that the country is at risk of losing more than 4 billion. of private and public investments in solar and wind energy, and the main reason for this is bureaucracy
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