Senators were concerned about the budget curtailment of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in the public hearing held on Tuesday (29) the Commission of Science, Technology, Innovation, Communication and Informatics (CCT). Minister Celso Pansera spoke on the progress, challenges and expectations of the ministry for the year 2016.
The political crisis was also subject to debate. Asked by the chairman of the committee, Senator Lasier Martins (PDT-RS), on the minister’s position on the political situation of the country, Pansera, which is federal deputy for the PMDB, said it was against the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. He said he continues as minister until there is an outcome of this situation
-. As a Member, I will vote against the impeachment. I do not think there is the fact that determines the impeachment. Regarding the maintenance of the ministry, I will wait for the resolution to be approved or not this afternoon at the party meeting. Already communicated to the president of my party and the vice-president, Michel Temer, my wish is to continue working in the Ministry. We will not stop any initiative – said
The minister also said he is against the political struggle to be taken to the extreme of dismantled ministries, especially the Health, Agriculture and Mines and Energy.. To Pansera, are key ministries with immediate impacts to the population.
Cuts
As for the budget, the minister said that this year there was a large contingency due the economic crisis. Was cut from the Ministry of Science and Technology R $ 1.7 billion from the National Scientific and Technological Development Fund (FNDCT), which left the Senators concerned.
But Pansera said there was a hit with the government for the contingency in FNDCT be done slowly and shut down in 2019. in addition, Pansera explained that 25% of the pre-salt background should go to the area of Science and Technology. Finally, the minister also has a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which should generate an amount of almost R $ 800 million for this year
-. The other issue was the immediate descontingenciamento of R $ 400 million of FNDCT this year as well. With this, we would have a inflow of funds by the end of the year would allow the operation of the system, all our social organizations and institutes and also the fulfillment of the commitments we have with bags and researchers – said the minister
Senator Walter Pinheiro (PT-BA) stressed the need to unite the scientific policies of the country, with actions to increase the industrial development of Brazil
-. You have to rescue the ability to combine science policy with industrial development. How do we overcome these challenges of growth, without combining these two areas? -s questioned Senator.
He also recalled that Brazil is facing several challenges, such as lack of skilled labor, while there are increasing promising sectors in various areas related to technology.
Science without Borders
Celso Pansera cited advances in various programs of your folder, such as the Science without Borders, which has implemented 92,880 scholarships until January 2016. Pansera also cited because the program has been released FNDCT and come under the coverage of the Ministry of Education, which will allow the fund’s funds are intended for other areas of innovation.
Senator Omar Aziz (PSD- AM), which reported the analysis of the program, chosen as public policy to be evaluated by the commission in 2015, asked the Minister to take into account the recommendations made in the report. The minister said that one of the recommendations, invest more in post-graduate courses, will be met and that there is another debate to invest more in the engineering area
-. Most of the students who participated science without Borders are the area of engineering and science and technology. We further ampliaríamos this margin for these areas of Exact focused on the area of production and engineering – said the minister
Dengue, Zika and chikungunya
. Pansera also said that the Ministry will invest this year in the National Plan to Combat the Aedes aegypti and microcephaly, released last week. The minister explained that the program has a budget of $ 1.2 billion and will by 2017
-. We launched last week a very bold plan, very ambitious for research zika, chikungunya and dengue, not only combat the virus, but the main vector, which is the mosquito. – said
Phosphoethanolamine
Senator Ivo Cassol (PP-RO) he asked the minister to intercede with President Dilma by the bill of penalty authorizing the use of phosphoethanolamine approved a week ago in the Senate. The senator said the drug has impressive effects in people with cancer and criticized the bureaucracy and those who are against the project, which releases the drug in an exceptional way, before completed research on the substance.
the minister said on Wednesday (30), will be announced the results of research that proves that phosphoethanolamine does no harm to human body. But Pansera explained that further research will be needed to find out how the substance acts within the body.
As it has no negative effects on the body, the minister said it would be possible to release it as a food supplement and that alternative being evaluated. The problem of project approval is that the pill developed by the University of São Paulo (USP) contains not only the phosphoethanolamine, but other substances that are not mentioned in the proposal
-. Tomorrow we will do a meeting at 10am with researchers linked to the Ministry, to take the decision on which path we will follow going forward with it. The tendency is to release it as a food supplement – said
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