(kontumtv.vn) – After 2 days of serious and responsible work, on the afternoon of November 12, the National Assembly completed the entire program of question and answer sessions at the 8th Session.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, on behalf of the Government, reported, explained, and clarified issues under the Government's management responsibility and directly answered questions from National Assembly deputies. Also participating in the questioning were: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc; Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long; Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang; Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien.
Three groups of problems
The question-and-answer session of this session focused on three groups of issues under the responsibility of the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, the Minister of Health, and the Minister of Information and Communications. Governor of the State Bank Nguyen Thi Hong was the first member of the Government to answer the question-and-answer session.
The Governor received many questions from delegates about the shortcomings in the gold market, solutions to stabilize precious metals, exchange rate and interest rate management as well as policies to support people and businesses to recover after storm Yagi...
National Assembly deputies focused on questioning Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan on the following issues: Mobilization and arrangement of medical forces, ensuring medicines and medical supplies for people, and disease prevention and control after natural disasters; granting of licenses and practice certificates in the field of medical examination and treatment; the current status of management of functional foods, pharmaceutical cosmetics and solutions to handle violations; prevention and control of the harmful effects of tobacco and stimulants, especially in the school environment...
During the question-and-answer session, National Assembly deputies raised many questions for Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung. The questions focused on three issues: Solutions to improve the quality of press activities in the current period of social media explosion, especially the role of revolutionary press in promoting socio-economic development; management of advertising activities in the press and online environment; investment, development and improvement of the quality of telecommunications infrastructure, especially in remote areas, remote areas, and ethnic minority areas.
During the two days of question and answer sessions, 136 delegates questioned, 18 delegates debated, and 80 delegates registered to speak but were not allowed to speak due to time running out. According to National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, the Ministers and heads of sectors demonstrated high responsibility, grasped the functions, tasks and current situation of the sectors and fields under their charge, answered many difficult and complicated issues clearly, frankly, without evasion, and explained and clarified many issues raised by National Assembly delegates; at the same time, proposed many solutions to overcome limitations in the coming time.
“Correct” and “hit” the issues of concern
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man assessed that the questioning contents met practical requirements, were "correct" and "hit" the issues that voters, people nationwide and National Assembly deputies were concerned about; continuing to affirm that this is a direct and effective form of supreme supervision of the National Assembly.
Nearly one-third of the questions from National Assembly deputies to the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam were related to the gold market, showing that this is a very "hot" issue at present. Deputy Hoang Van Cuong (Hanoi) commented that previously, the difference between domestic gold prices and world gold prices was up to 15 million VND, now the difference is only 3-5 million VND. This is a reasonable difference. That proves that the State Bank's interventions in the market have solved the problem of balancing domestic supply and demand. Many National Assembly deputies expressed their hope that the State should have higher interventions, which is to ensure both buying and selling of gold.
In the banking sector, a delegate asked about support policies for customers borrowing capital in the agricultural and rural sectors affected by storm No. 3 (YAGI). State Bank Governor Nguyen Thi Hong said that up to now, 35 credit institutions have announced support packages with a capital of VND 405,000 billion to continue lending to businesses and people. As of October 31, 2024, banks have made new preferential loans with a cumulative capital of VND 27,000 billion; reduced interest rates on existing loans with an outstanding balance of about VND 82,000 billion...
Regarding the health sector, delegates were very concerned about the issues of medicine, medical facilities, health insurance, and medical ethics. Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan answered very frankly, at the same time acknowledging that her efforts and attempts still had certain shortcomings, and promised to make more efforts in the future to better serve the health of the people.
Through following the Minister of Health's question and answer session, voter Du Minh Hung (Ca Mau) expressed his confidence that with the proactive and decisive advice and implementation of many drastic solutions to improve the effectiveness of State management, focusing on perfecting the legal framework for the sector's operations, drafting bills to submit to the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, issuing strategies, programs, and plans, the current difficulties and problems in practice such as: Improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, bidding for procurement of drugs, vaccines, medical supplies, health insurance, policies for medical staff, etc. will soon be resolved fundamentally and effectively.
Evaluating the response of Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung, delegate Truong Xuan Cu (Hanoi) said that the Minister has adhered to current regulations and provided solutions to all questions raised by National Assembly delegates. However, to thoroughly handle the issue, it is necessary to have both sides, such as with the issue of preventing bad and toxic information. The Ministry in charge needs time to continue to propagate and raise people's awareness. At the same time, people also need to equip themselves with certain knowledge and understanding to prevent and combat bad and toxic news and negative information.
The Prime Minister has issued a strategy for digital transformation of journalism, considering cyberspace as the main front of journalism and success or failure depends on this. On the afternoon of November 12, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc participated in explaining and clarifying a number of issues of concern to National Assembly deputies. In order for journalism to develop in the coming time, the Deputy Prime Minister said that it is necessary to perfect the press law and related laws; strengthen training and coaching to keep up with technology, factors of the times...
Highly appreciating the content of the questions and answers about advertising activities on social networks for people in rural areas, especially those in mountainous areas, Mr. Giang A Cau, Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Yen Bai province, said that taking advantage of the gullibility and limited knowledge of farmers in the area, many advertisements on social networks about oriental medicine, functional foods, powdered milk, etc. are exaggerated like "miracle drugs", easily causing misunderstandings about the real effects of the products. The widespread advertising of poor quality products and services, counterfeit goods, and copyright infringements, causing confusion for users, is becoming increasingly common. In particular, subjects take advantage of the above form of advertising to attract and entice users to borrow money online at high interest rates, with simple online procedures but "cutthroat" interest rates... Many people in the highlands of Yen Bai province have become victims because of advertisements that disregard the law and the principles of ethics and responsibility of the person delivering the advertisement.
To overcome this situation, according to Mr. Giang A Cau, in addition to improving the level and wisdom of consumers, the Government and competent authorities need to quickly identify personal accounts and advertising business organizations on social networking platforms; strengthen the scanning and handling of online advertising violations, especially cross-border advertising platforms...
Also related to advertising content, lawyer Nguyen Van Hau (Ho Chi Minh City) said that advertising activities in the press are being regulated by the 2012 Advertising Law, however, the application in practice is facing some limitations that need to be revised, and has not even kept up with the development of current life practices such as regulations on advertising in cyberspace. Consumers trust advertised products because of their trust in the reputation of the press agencies or their love and admiration for the advertiser of the product, who is an influential person to the public...
Promote decentralization and delegation of authority
Notably, during the question and answer session with National Assembly deputies, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that eliminating temporary and leaky houses is a major policy, which the Politburo and General Secretary To Lam have directed. Currently, our country still has more than 300,000 households with dilapidated houses, including those who have contributed to the revolution, subjects of National Target Programs, poor and near-poor households. Emphasizing the high determination to eliminate all leaky and temporary houses by 2025, the Prime Minister said that it is necessary to establish a Steering Committee from the Central to the grassroots level to unify leadership, direction, mobilization and use of resources. In addition, it is necessary to remove obstacles related to land, implementing the principle that "no dispute is possible".
The solution to further promote decentralization and delegation of power between the Government and ministries, branches, localities, etc. is one of the contents that National Assembly deputies are interested in and questioned the Prime Minister on the afternoon of November 12. The Prime Minister said that the focus in institutional reform is decentralization and delegation of power. Besides, it is necessary to prioritize growth, and to grow, there must be resources. If we continue to grow at the current rate of 6-7%/year, it will be very difficult to achieve the 100-year target. To achieve growth priorities, institutional obstacles must be removed to mobilize all resources of the State, people, society, public-private partnership resources, foreign investment resources, etc.
According to the assessment of the National Assembly Chairman, there is a common point that the Government members mentioned many times in this question and answer session: Sincerely thank - seriously accept - take personal responsibility - will be determined to implement - and earnestly hope that agencies and localities will strongly participate with the Government, ministries and branches.
The specific contents were concluded in 3 question and answer sessions for each field. Based on the questions of the National Assembly deputies and the answers of the Government members and heads of sectors, the National Assembly Standing Committee will direct relevant agencies to prepare a draft resolution to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the closing session of this Session.
According to National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, the question and answer session was a great success, with strong commitments in direction, management and operation. The National Assembly Chairman requested the Ministers and Heads of sectors, with the spirit of "saying goes hand in hand with doing and doing right away", to promote the achieved results, promptly overcome limitations and difficulties, and have new solutions to more effectively implement the set goals and tasks.
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