Debate on garbage and urban hygiene marks Lisbon Municipal Assembly – Observer
The issues of urban hygiene, the dominant theme in the Assembly with the Lisbon parties, were organized around the responsibility of who is the examined municipality of garbage in the streets of the capital.
The debate, which was required by the municipal group of Livre, lasted about two hours, giving rise to various interventions and questions.
Opening the debate, the municipal deputy of Livre, Isabel Lopes, justified the relevance of the topic as the fact that the garbage problem had won “expression in recent months” and by itself “accumulate complaints on social networks”Alert alert for rat and cockroach alerts.
In the same vein as the interventions that will follow those elected by the PEV, PAN, PC and BE, the administrative reorganization of 2012 was pointed out as the cause of the worsening of the situation, the power of competence in the parish councils, the recovery of tourism and the lack of human resources.
The responsibility from the intervention of the municipal social deputy on the responsibility of this accumulation of garbage on social networks was also from the participation of Luís Newton da Estrela in the debate that was based on “an exercise in hypocrisy”, since “the problem is an inheritance from previous mandates”.
What BE Livre gave itself and became allowed in this house did not solve or solve the problem of garbage when the problem was in this house. This debate is a farce.”
On the opposite side, PS municipal deputy Carla Madeira, who presides over the Misericórdia parish council, said that urban hygiene “is a big problem today” and that “the city of Lisbon has never been so unhealthy”.
In response, the vice-president of the Lisbon City Council, Filipe Anacoreta Correia (CDS-PP), noted that the problems with garbage are not exclusive to Lisbon” and “a catastrophic vision”.
“I do not agree with the catastrophic readings and that the problem has worsened. Some problems are improving,” he said, challenging opposition parties to put forward proposals “instead of just making diagnoses.”
The councilor responsible for Urban Hygiene in the Lisbon Chamber, Ângelo Pereira (PSD), intervened to list a set of measures that the municipality is carrying out to mitigate the problem, which include hiring two workers, reorganizing services, creating a nucleus and increasing the frequency of collection.
The social-democratic mayor said that the Lisbon City Council hired another 160 street corner workers, 15 workers for the workshops and 30 drivers.
Regarding the human resources fleet, with the replacement interval of the value incinerator and with the use of equipment and equipment for effective operating hours.
Even before the beginning of the discussion, in the period of intervention to the public, Vítor Reis, from the Union of Workers of the Municipality of Lisbon (STML), intervened to remove any responsibility from workers and union activity in the “chaotic situation that is lived in the city” .
People should question the Speaker of the House. The responsibility lies with the former principals, but also with the current one”, said the unionist.
In a meeting in July with the Union of Workers of the Municipality of Lisbon (STML), the Union of Workers of Local Administration (STAL) and the Union of Public Administration Workers (SINTAP), Carlos Moedas said that they had paid 18 million euros to the boards. of parish, who are responsible for cleaning the streets and around eco-islands.
The mayor said, then, that the problem of urban hygiene “comes from far behind, it is not a problem that is to be created” or that it belongs to this mayor.
In 2014, Vítor Reis, from STML, from STML, frequency of the height of urban hygiene problems is not the hygiene problems worsened today.
However, it returned, with the end of the pandemic and the tourism problem, the problem became more acute.