Question 13255 — departments

Summary

Mr. Joël Aviragnet draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the abolition of the departmental institution of Haute-Garonne on the metropolitan perimeter. The Government has announced its intention to initiate territorial reform in Haute-Garonne inspired by the Lyon model. Such a decision, if it were to see the light of day, would result in a transfer of powers from the departmental council to Toulouse metropolis. on the territory of the latter. The abolition of the departmental institution on the metropolitan perimeter would leave a residual department, a department deprived of part of its resources, its means and its capacity for action in terms of human and territorial solidarity. This situation is unthinkable as the departmental council plays an essential role through its support for local public services, through the public engineering offer that it deploys close to the territories and, more broadly, through all the systems and projects that it puts in place to support all the Haut-Garonnais territories according to their specificities and their needs. The department acts on a daily basis, with a view to constant dialogue and listening, in favor of the balanced development of territories. Its action among citizens, whether in social support or in favor of college students, finds an identical translation in small rural communities as in the Toulouse metropolis. In Haute-Garonne, the department's action is therefore fundamental to ensuring equal opportunities for citizens across all urban, peri-urban, rural and mountain areas. The MP is convinced that these territories, whose diversity forges identity and wealth, have a common future which must be written in complementarity, solidarity and sharing. The transfer of skills from the departmental council to Toulouse metropolis would jeopardize the already fragile balance between all these living areas in Haut-Garonne. Furthermore, in an insecure context of reduction in State allocations, reform of local taxation with the abolition of the housing tax, increasing complexity of standards and regulations, the wish of the municipalities is to be able to act within a finally stabilized territorial organization; from this point of view, calling into question the department would be a new factor of uncertainty for them. He would therefore like to know his intentions on this issue.

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