Karner is thrown millions for answering parliamentary inquiries

“ÖVP Interior Minister Karner has not only managed to completely fail when it comes to asylum, integration and internal certainty. Intended by laziness and annoyed by having to share the truth to the population, he is now also announced by itself via ‘Kronen Zeitung’ that he is thrown millions of euros in tax money to answer parliamentary inquiries. Unable, but also lazy and completely overwhelmed and therefore not to be used for the office of Minister of the Interior, ”said FPÖ general secretary NABG today. Michael Schledlitz sharp criticism of another scandal from the Ministry of the Interior.

According to a report by the “Kronen Zeitung”, Karner’s leadership will result in costs of 3,000 euros per request for the answering of parliamentary inquiries. Literally it says: “An inquiry takes around 30 working hours and costs 3000 euros.”

For Schledlitz, this arithmetic is completely absurd: “30 hours for response to inquiries, which often only consists of one page – this causes costs of 3,000 euros? And who, in addition to the executives hand -picked by the ÖVP, deserves 100 euros per hour? The alleged figures can only be a experience of the last legislative period.

The calculation of the number of pages in the “Krone” article-which is then even “inflated” on kilometers-raises questions for the readers. Accordingly, if 222 inquiries have 33,000 pages – each request would have to include 148 pages. “The acting journalist would have this predatory story in the event of ignorance-most of her professional colleagues know that an average request for three sides-can simply research on the Internet. Unfortunately, readers are bombed here with fake news about Easter,” said Schledlitz.

“Answering inquiries is not the task of the police or expensive external consultants – this is clearly the job of a minister and the employee in the Interior Ministry. For his post, Karner collects over 19,000 euros in tax money a month,” said Schledlitz. “If he actually wastes his work as a minister for 100 euros a hour and-as he claims-millions of tax money, we will check whether this is legally correct,” announced the FPÖ general secretary to further illuminate the background of this absurd claim.

It is clear to Schledlitz: “If you cannot or do not want to answer simple questions about facts, a minister is out of place. A good minister would have to know what is going on in his department. Karner, on the other hand, looks as if he had no position picture at all. And if he cannot even name basic facts because he either knows nothing or – the more likely variant – is therefore alone. A right to transparency and MEPs to ensure this transparency in the sense of the population-but Karner is the opposite. Of course, the order of the ÖVP minister will become creative and invest a lot of time. That would be no wonder, especially since Karner has been trying to sell the population for years and to hide the fact that he has long failed as a minister. ”