So first of all I would like to thank everyone, especially the
firefighters, the civil protection, also the police officers, who have
been very active in the last 24 hours.
Today we have already seen on the ground that much has been done.
Yet, unfortunately, we are facing these extreme weather events more and
more often.
Slovenia, as a mountainous country, is obviously all the more exposed to
this. This makes it all the more important to put in place the
systemic foundations, and this is what our government is doing.
It is not that we react only to individual accidents.
No, the systemic foundations are being put in place through the
Disaster Relief Act, as well as the Reconstruction and Development Act.
And I believe that in this way, we will be able to help these people who
are affected and these municipalities that have been
affected in the most appropriate way.
It is true that you need to be vigilant.
On the one hand, we want immediate action to bring people back together.
On the other hand, there are long-term measures that will have to
be carefully thought through.
The profession will have to have the main say, and that is what we are
working on, to give the profession a voice.
And when the profession tells you the solution, it has to be.
We will not waste any more words on this.
It is up to the politicians to then implement the professional decisions,
and that is what we will stand for.
The Act on the renewal of development has now been sent out for
a broad public debate, on the one hand to the municipalities, on the
other to the profession, including the opposition.
Over the next fortnight, I believe that constructive comments will be
collected on this topic and I expect that by the end of November this law
will be in Parliament and approved there.
That way, we can plan for the next period of at least five years how to
get back on our feet after all these devastating natural disasters.
Thank you very much, Prime Minister.
Yes, first of all, I would also like to thank all those who spent
yesterday and today on the ground, making sure that the situation in
many places has already been rehabilitated and that many of the
evacuated residents have already been able to return to their homes.
We know that some people are not yet able to do this.
At the same time, a big thank you for the quick reaction of the
government, the civil protection leadership and, importantly, the
project planers. Because what the Prime Minister mentioned earlier seems to
me to be crucial. We need systemic solutions.
We need preventive solutions so that these things do not happen again.
We know that on the one hand we have pushed this planet of ours to its
limits and that such things will happen again in the future, so we
need to be more prepared for them.
Here I appeal to the government to adopt appropriate solutions in the
management of watercourses, in the care of the national road network.
At local level, we will absolutely do our utmost to be as responsive as
we can, but also as we can.
We put over 20 pieces of heavy construction equipment on the ground
yesterday. Here we also need a better response from the
concessionaires who manage the road network at national level.
The Prime Minister and I had a very constructive conversation, even
throughout the morning, and we found some solutions that we are looking
forward to, just as we are looking forward to the Recovery Act, which I
hope will really be about that.
That is to say, to the professional desks that will provide systemic
preventive solutions.
If we are going to ensure this, there may have to be some compromise
somewhere, both with nature conservation and, after all, with the
residents. But all in the direction of keeping a beautiful countryside
like Baška Grapa safely inhabited.