This Wednesday, the Government Council authorized the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural World and Environment to spend 8 million euros until 2027 for the granting of aid aimed at improving irrigation and other infrastructures. … subsidies to Irrigation Communities and water user communities, co-financed by the European Agrarian Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
As explained by the spokesperson for the regional Executive, Alfonso Domínguez, “among the possible types of eligible investments are irrigation infrastructures associated with the modernization or new transformation and expansion of irrigation areas, energy savings, the reduction of electrical costs and the implementation or improvement of information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve water and energy management. Only infrastructure that is designed to achieve a minimum percentage of potential water savings of 10% will be eligible.
The beneficiaries of the aid will be the Communities of Irrigators or other communities of water users mainly linked to irrigation, owners or those managing irrigation infrastructures, who have their corresponding water rights in force and their scope of action is within the territory of La Rioja. According to Domínguez, the minimum investment for these works will be 200,000 euros and the maximum individualized amount of each subsidy will be 60%. The deadline for submitting applications will be 20 business days from the day following the publication of the call extract in the Official Gazette of La Rioja (BOR).
The counselor, when asked by journalists, announced that aid is being studied for some sectors affected by the drought. In this sense, after remembering that a few months ago the mushroom sector was supported, he explained that the Ministry is in contact with agricultural organizations and associations in the cereal sector to address the granting of subsidies to address the damage caused by the lack of rain. .
Sanitary material
At its meeting this Wednesday, Gonzalo Capellán’s Cabinet also authorized an expense of 4.55 million euros to acquire vaccines against shingles and various medical supplies for the laboratories of the San Pedro Hospital.
Specifically, the Council has approved an amount of 875,420 euros for the acquisition of more than 7,000 doses of the Shingrix (HZ/su) vaccine, from the GSK company, the only one that can be administered to immunocompromised people. , the main risk group for suffering from herpes zoster. The purchase of these more than 7,000 doses seeks to guarantee protection against shingles for at-risk groups aged 18 and over, as well as for those people who turn 65 and 80 years of age, as stated by Alfonso Domínguez after remembering that Herpes zoster (HZ) is a very prevalent disease, with a higher incidence after the age of 50 and in women, increasing with age and, considerably, with the presence of certain risk conditions.
Alfonso Domínguez, in his appearance this Wednesday.
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In addition, the regional Executive has approved that the Rioja Health Service (Seris) can allocate 3,669,841.61 euros to supply the laboratories of the San Pedro University Hospital with hematimetry, coagulation and cytometry reagents, which are a fundamental piece in the service. of Clinical Analysis of the hospital complex.
Said contract, the spokesperson explained, which will be executed between September 1 and December 31, 2027, can be extended for periods equal to or less than 12 months up to a total maximum of 60 consecutive months. The planned expenditure this year amounts to 366,984.17 euros; the next at 1,100,952.48; and in the next two, at 1,100,952.48 and 1,100,952.48 euros, respectively.
Social services
Two other agreements approved at today’s meeting have to do with care for vulnerable or at-risk people in the field of Social Services. In this sense, the Council has authorized an expenditure of 2,091,489.81 euros, 60% financed by the EU through the European Social Fund (ESF) +2021-2027, for the contracting of the day center and center service. occupational training for people with dependency and cerebral palsy and the like in Logroño provided by the ASPACE-Rioja entity. With its decision, the regional Executive guarantees public support for the maintenance of the 79 existing places, and also achieves the expansion of them by ten more, up to a total of 89, to “provide service to people who are on the list of waiting, as well as to anticipate a future increase in demand,” highlighted Alfonso Domínguez, who has specified that 60 of them correspond to the day center and the remaining 29, to the occupational center.
The Government of La Rioja has also agreed to allocate 696,618.56 euros to finance the extension for one year, until June 2025, of the accommodation and specialized intervention service received by 16 young mothers at social risk who are in charge of a minor. aged three years or less, as well as young pregnant women, and who lack the personal resources and socio-family support to assume their motherhood in a responsible and independent manner.
As clarified by the government spokesperson, “the Temporary Union of Companies UTE DOC 2001S.L.-OSSA GLOBAL SA provides the service in two apartments located in a town in La Rioja with a population of more than 6,000 inhabitants, which are adequately furnished and equipped. , and guarantee accessibility without architectural barriers that prevent or hinder access for people with reduced mobility.
Finally, the Chaplain’s Cabinet has authorized the Ministry of Local Policy, Infrastructure and the Fight against Depopulation to allocate 565,936 euros for the extension for one year, until May 25, 2025, of the implementation and commissioning services contract , maintenance, supports and training of an electronic administration solution and municipal management applications for accounting and population registers for the modernization of the region’s town councils.
Distribution of the menu of the day in a school cafeteria in the capital.
Juan Marin
The awarding of the school cafeteria service, “in days”
The spokesperson for the Government of La Rioja, Alfonso Domínguez, has also announced that the new school cafeteria service will be ready for the next school year that begins in September. The counselor, in response to questions from journalists, detailed that the regional Executive “is finalizing the award” and “in a matter of days”, once the only remaining procedure is completed, the Intervention, it will be known which companies are awarded. in batches.
Asked about the increase in prices, Domínguez recalled that the substantial increase in quality, in addition to the improvement of the powers to control compliance by the successful bidder companies, was one of the claims that were made to the Government of La Rioja. . After emphasizing that “it is evident that an increase in quality, especially in an economic moment in which we find ourselves, in which there is a lot of increase in prices, also has a direct consequence in the increase in price,” the spokesperson has confirmed the maintenance of the aid, the amount of which, he noted, “has already been increased in the 2024 budget in relation to the amounts that were established in the previous legislature.”
