Net fiscal savings from government interventions, in order to promote restructuring of the public sector through placing civil servants in availability will total 100 million euros in the period 2013-2018, according to a report by Alternate Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, tabled to Parliament.
The report said that the Medium-term Fiscal Strategy Program envisaged that in the period 2013-2018 there will be a net fiscal saving of 100 million euros through a series of interventions focusing on: including 25,669 civil servants in an availability status, 15,000 dismissals from the public sector and 15,000 new positions.
Mr. Staikouras, in the report, noted that fiscal savings this year would total 164 million euros, including only a part of the cost of new hirings, which will total around 8,000 in the last quarter of 2014 and 7,000 in 2015. The report was tabled to Parliament in response to a parliamentary question tabled by Independent Greeks deputy Marina Chrysoveloni.