List with “dead” that he waves CURRENT minister Al Labor, Florin Manole, is the one drawn up on June 30 and signed by Alexandra Zara, the former president of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, appointed and supported by PSD, of SAPS the former interim Minister of Labour, Dragoş Pîslaru.
His reaction comes after Manole announced on Monday that Pîslaru reported deceased persons as being deinstitutionalized, and Romania will lose money from the PNRR due to false reports.
“Mr. Manole accuses me of having reported “deceased persons” to the European Commission in order to tick off a target from the PNRR regarding the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities. What he “forgets” to mention is that the list of “dead” that he is waving around on television is the list from June 30, drawn up and signed by Mrs. Zara, the former ANPDPD president, appointed and supported by the PSD. Exactly for this type of management disastrously, I dismissed Mrs. Zara. In her place, I appointed Ana Rădulescu, an impeccable professional, who cleaned up the chaos left behind,” Pîslaru wrote on his Facebook page.
According to him, the ANPDPD reported on August 31, based on the data received from the country to the ministry, 3,976 eligible people, without any case of death in the centers, as they had been identified in the previous report from June 30, and who were removed through a clear verification, reports Agerpres.
“I know exactly why Mr. Manole is attacking right now. The European Commission is doing the natural checks on this milestone, and Mr. Minister, unable to support technical negotiations with European experts, is looking for a scapegoat. The reporting of 3,976 deinstitutionalized people was the most rigorous, correct and clean centralization possible based on the data available at that time. Any inconsistency or difference in interpretation that the Commission now raises before the ministry concerns complex methodological clarifications (such as the eligibility of young people saved from the system), not “fakes” and, under no circumstances, “deceased persons”“the former minister also specified.
He claims, at the same time, that in his capacity as interim minister for 5 months, he did not sign or send any report to the European Commission, this attribution being the responsibility of the specialized department in the ministry. Pîslaru also specified that, in the spring of 2026, he renegotiated the milestone with the European Commission, lowering the target to 4,000 (deinstitutionalized persons, no) and transforming the indicator into one that is easier to measure.
“With the allowed margin of 5% (minimum deviation), the target to be reached was 3,800, and the 3,976 eligible persons reported by the ANPDPD on August 31, based on the data from the territory from the DGASPCs, covered the satisfactory milestone, based on the data from that time. I ask the PSD for a dram of decency. People with disabilities, their destinies and the real efforts to offer them a dignified life in the community are not a table of maneuver to cover your incompetence and fraud“to more said the former minister.
The Minister of Labor, Florin Manole, announced on Monday that Dragoş Pîslaru reported deceased persons as being deinstitutionalized, which is why the correction of funds from the PNRR is inevitable.
“This shows cynicism and a lack of professionalism. In addition, almost 500 other cases were non-compliant. They embellished the numbers, made false reports. For this reason, the correction of funds from the PNRR is inevitable. Romania will lose money, because the verification and reporting, which had to be done in July and August, were wrong. Pîslaru was warned several times, in writing, in August, by colleagues from The Ministry of Labor was told then that it was necessary to verify and complete the data, and to add supporting documents necessary to meet the target in the PNRR. Not only did this not happen, but worse, under the signature of the ANPDPD, wrong data were sent to the European Commission, including deceased persons.“a SAPS Manola.
right ITSuntil July 8, 2026, the general framework necessary for deinstitutionalization was established, and all the actors involved were officially informed that deaths, transfers to other centers and non-compliant forms of housing cannot be taken into account.
On July 10, the deinstitutionalization file was handed over to the new ANPDPD management through an official protocol. It then had almost two months, until August 31, to verify and ensure the compliance of the files.
“At the beginning of September, the ANPDPD announced that the target had been reached, reporting 3,976 deinstitutionalized persons. When the table reached the European Commission, missing information, deaths, transfers to other residential centers and persons who were not institutionalized until 2020 were identified. The Commission urgently requested the revision of the data. Following the verification made at the ministry, 478 cases were eliminated: persons who died or who they were not institutionalized until 2020 or had no supporting documents, others were in unregulated housing, others were being deinstitutionalized or transferred to other centers. Therefore, the real figure was not 3,976, but 3,498 deinstitutionalized people. We will not cover this mistake and replace the reality with a convenient figure“he claimed CURRENT minister Al Labor.
