Nguyen Dinh Phung, a deputy from north-central Thanh Hoa province:

As a representative of voters in the rural areas who still lead a hard life, I think developing the rural economy is one of the major issues that the new Government should take into consideration.

I also expect that the new Government will succeed in combating corruption.

I agree with the Prime Minister’s proposal to streamline the organisational structure of the new Government as it suits the country’s current context. I also agree with the Prime Minister’s explanations on the need to have five deputy Prime Ministers in the new Government because it meets the requirements for the development of key personnel at present and in the future. 

 

Tran Thi Quoc Khanh, a deputy from Hanoi City:

Voters welcome the Prime Minister’s scheme to reorganise several ministries and ministerial-level agencies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the Government’s management. I agree with the PM’s proposal to have five deputy PMs in the new Government to help him cover all areas and avoid shortcomings and loopholes. I think the Government should increase the number of young personnel to ensure the inheritance for the coming terms.

Under the PM’s proposal, the new Government will have 22 ministries and ministerial-level agencies which all run their public services. It does not mean that the Government has reformed deliberately because all ministries set their own regulation of interests, which could overlap with each other. This will eventually affect localities. I hope that the Government will gather all public services into four or five categories under the management of the deputy PMs. The move will help speed up public administrative reform at all levels.

 

Le Van Cuong, a deputy from north-central Thanh Hoa province:

To merge ministries together, the most difficult thing is to deal with the issue of staffing, because the merger will lead to a large number of lay-offs. In addition, the Government should consider providing proper social policies for these persons. Power decentralisation should be also stepped up in localities. Besides macro State management, ministries should no longer control programmes, projects or operations of businesses. Businesses operate under the Enterprise Law and they should not stand behind ministries because by doing so ministries cannot manage to take over the State management task. Development programmes or investment projects of any localities should be managed by those localities. Ministries only focus on macro management to make it more effective and efficient.

 

Tran Du Lich, a deputy from Ho Chi Minh City:

The new Government should pay special attention to the fight against corruption. In my opinion, the most important thing in this fight is to have preventative measures in place. It is very important to control ranking officials and staff, preferential treatment and transparency in legal documents, regulations and policies to prevent corruption.

As NA deputies, one of our tasks is to discover overlaps and loopholes in legal documents and make proposals to relevant agencies to deal with them. This is one of the NA’s supervisory functions.

 

Le Quoc Dung, a deputy from northern Thai Binh province

It is necessary to identify the organisational structure of the Government, its mechanisms and changes. It is the Prime Minister’s duty and of course the PM is responsible for his decisions before the National Assembly. However, the National Assembly should hold a confidence vote on a regular basis to make Cabinet members further raise the level of responsibility for their assignments.