Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat and Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang will be the next two members of the Government to answer questions from National Assembly deputies today.

The session was televised and broadcast live on Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, and Vietnam National Assembly Television.

Question and answer session of National Assembly deputies on June 6. Photo: VPQH

* Yesterday, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, under the chairmanship of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, the National Assembly continued the 13th working day of the 5th Session with plenary sessions in the hall, conducting questions and answers from National Assembly deputies.

Morning

From 8:00 to 8:10: National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue gives opening remarks at the question and answer session.

From 8:10 to 11:30: The National Assembly questioned Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung on the first group of issues in the field of labor, war invalids and social affairs.

At the question and answer session, 35 delegates questioned and 11 delegates debated, focusing on the following contents: (1) Solutions for developing human resources, especially high-quality human resources to meet the development requirements of industries and fields; planning, arrangement, organization, restructuring and improving the training quality of vocational training institutions, ensuring the supply of enough skilled workers in key areas and fields. (2) Current employment status for workers and solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles in creating jobs for workers in the current period. (3) Solutions to overcome shortcomings and limitations in the field of social insurance (enterprises evading payment, appropriation, social insurance debt, collusion, falsification, falsification of insurance benefit records, incorrect payment of benefits, etc.); management of the Social Insurance Fund; solutions to overcome the increasing trend of workers withdrawing social insurance at one time.

At the question and answer session, Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan participated in answering questions and explaining related issues.

Afternoon

From 14:00 to 14:20: Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung continues to answer questions on the first group of issues; Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha also participates in answering questions and explaining related issues.

From 14:20 to 14:30: National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue delivered a concluding speech for the first group of issues, stating: The question-and-answer session was lively; delegates asked concise, responsible questions, going straight to the issues that people, voters and businesses are very interested in; Minister Dao Ngoc Dung answered to the point, fully and satisfactorily explained the issues raised by National Assembly delegates, and at the same time proposed many solutions and committed to the National Assembly on perfecting institutions, policies, laws as well as organizing the implementation of contents within the Ministry's state management responsibilities.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue requested the Government, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, and relevant Ministers to fully absorb the opinions of National Assembly deputies, and at the same time resolutely direct the implementation of proposed solutions, focusing on the following key issues:

Firstly, effectively implement the Party's policies and the State's laws and policies on vocational education, especially the regulations and resolutions of the National Assembly, the Government and the Planning Strategy and Project on vocational education development for the period up to 2030, with a vision to 2045; accelerate the progress of institutional improvement, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of vocational education, ensure the connection with the labor market in the direction of openness, connectivity, modernity, integration and adaptation; continue to review and arrange public vocational education institutions, perfect the mechanism and implement autonomy according to the roadmap, apply advanced management to public vocational education institutions, linked to the requirements and development trends of the labor market; strengthen supervision, inspection and examination; periodically evaluate and classify the quality of vocational education institutions; increase resources, prioritize the state budget for vocational education; Quickly shift the budget allocation mechanism to task assignment...

Second, in 2023, review, fully compile statistics, research, and propose solutions to thoroughly resolve the number of individual business owners who have paid compulsory social insurance on the principle of contribution - benefit, ensuring the rights of insurance participants as well as thoroughly resolving cases of social insurance collection and payment that are not in accordance with regulations; proactively review to promptly detect and resolve other arising cases that are not yet regulated by the law on social insurance; at the same time, clarify responsibilities and propose solutions for each individual, agency, and organization that allows this situation to occur.

Third, coordinate with ministries and branches to promote restructuring of industries, especially labor-intensive industries such as textiles, footwear, and leather in a green direction, meeting the requirements of competition and international integration; proactively respond, have timely support solutions, ensure social security, reduce difficulties for employees and employers; continue to promote information, propaganda, policy explanation, application of science, technology, information technology, digital transformation in state management in organizing the implementation of policies and regimes on social insurance.

Fourth, perfecting legal policies and social insurance, preparing documents for the draft Law on Social Insurance (amended) to submit to the National Assembly for comments at the 6th Session, October 2023 and for consideration and approval at the Session in early 2024; amending and supplementing social insurance policies must ensure expansion, encouraging employees and employers to participate in social insurance towards the goal of universal social insurance according to Resolution 28 of the Party Central Committee; effectively overcoming the situation of late payment, evasion of social insurance payment, receiving social insurance benefits at one time, borrowing other people's records to participate in social insurance, buying and selling, collecting social insurance books of employees and other profiteering acts; ensuring the management of social insurance fund investment is safe, profitable, and balanced in the long term.

Fifth, the Supreme People's Court shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to promptly resolve obstacles in lawsuit procedures related to social insurance; at the same time, consider accepting and bringing to trial a number of cases of social insurance evasion in accordance with the law.

Sixth, review, research and propose amendments to the Law on Employment to create more job opportunities for people; proactively prevent unemployment, build an information system and forecast the labor market that truly meets the requirements of the market and businesses in the process of digital economic development; urgently complete the database system on labor and the labor market, towards modern, flexible and proactive labor market and employment management; soon have specific solutions, gradually reduce the rate of workers working in the informal sector, towards sustainable employment, green jobs and satisfactory income.

From 14:30 to 17:00: The National Assembly questioned Minister and Chairman of the Ethnic Committee Hau A Lenh on the second group of issues in the ethnic field. At the questioning session, 27 delegates questioned and 3 delegates debated, focusing on the following contents: (1) Responsibilities of the Ethnic Committee and coordination with ministries and branches in implementing national target programs (new rural construction in the 2021-2025 period; sustainable poverty reduction in the 2021-2025 period; socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period). (2) Policies to attract resources to support investment in the development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas, areas with difficult and especially difficult socio-economic conditions. (3) Solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles in ethnic policies related to the demarcation of communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. (4) Solving difficulties in residential land and production land for ethnic minorities, overcoming the situation of spontaneous nomadic and shifting cultivation, and deforestation.

HAI THANH