Very costly committee
According to “Rzeczpospolita”, the work of the commission for Russian influences, set up by the Law and Justice Office, cost Poland over PLN 555,000 in 3 months. These costs included salaries for 9 members of the commission, operating from the end of August to 29 November 2023, which amounted to PLN 421 832.32. The Commission was established in the erstwhile word of parliament, from the PiS nomination.
This amount includes, among others, flat-rate allowances of the president of the Sławomir Cenckiewicz commission, social safety contributions and the Labour Fund, which amounted to over PLN 57 thousand. The additional costs, specified as salaries of staff serving the commission, amounted to PLN 68,257, and after the completion of the work, PLN 2971,20 gross for unused leave was paid to 1 of the committee members.
The full cost of the committee which the Sejm late annulled exceeded PLN 555 1000 in the final analysis.
KO Commission besides not cheap
The Sejm late passed a bill eliminating the state commission investigating Russian influences on the interior safety of Poland from 2007 to 2022. The legal act shall invalidate any action or decision taken by the committee. The president of Poland has not yet signed the bill and is improbable to do so.
At the same time, there is simply a fresh expert committee on the survey of Russian and Belarusian influences, set up by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The Commission is chaired by General Jarosław Sróżyk, Head of Military Counterintelligence Service, and its 11-member composition includes, among others, prof. Irena Lipowicz, erstwhile ombudsman, and Ambassador Tomasz Chłoń, erstwhile head of the NATO office in Moscow.
The Commission shall examine the period 2004 to 2024 and its cost shall be comparable to the previous. Members of the committee are entitled to a wage of about PLN 17 1000 per period at the level of the Secretary of State's earnings in the government administration. Prime Minister Tusk revised his order by deleting a evidence that excluded remuneration for persons employed in government administration, which means that these people now, including the gene. A guardian, they can get a wage for working on the committee.
The leader is inactive the Smolensk committee
The Smolensk subcommittee led by Antoni Macierewicz, operating at the MON from 2016 to 1923, was the most costly in history, costing PLN 33 million, of which PLN 12.5 million were salaries. The evidence income of 1 associate amounted to PLN 900,000, which is six times higher than the costs of the aviation accident investigation commission, which under Jerzy Miller investigated the causes of the Smolensk disaster between 2010 and 2011.
The question to be asked in the context of setting up various committees is: do they bring tangible social benefits? However, they seem to service only political purposes in the form of verbal pushes, but society itself gains small from their work.
