Leijten is disappointed that new documents keep popping up about the affair, despite a parliamentary committee of inquiry having looked into the matter and, in principle, all information should then have been on the table. Not like that. ‘Now those pieces seem to be resurfacing with no explanation, but with the announcement that there will be more pieces. They’re making fun of us and it’s not good.’
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Nieuwsuur, among others, released the documents, the correspondence of the Tax and Customs Administration appears incomplete – also with regard to the parliamentary inquiry. In fact, perjury may have been committed during those parliamentary interrogations. Leijten wonders if the national investigation department should deal with it. ‘How come?’
“The Secretary of State dare not do it. He says he can’t, but he doesn’t dare ‘
Leijten is not only upset that new pieces keep popping up, but the timing and how they are released also stings her. “Finally, the Secretary of State sent us these documents himself: Wednesday evening, when everyone was in the car for Ascension weekend. Not with an explanation of why we get it. That way we get something every time.”
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He also regrets that the solution does not come close, despite the resources: «The entire repair operation now costs 6 billion. As?’ Many parents who have reported are still waiting for their case to be addressed, people in the implementation run into closed doors. Leijten defines it as a cynical matter, she will ask De Vries and the Prime Minister if anyone else can resolve the issue.
‘The whole operation to compensate for this now costs 6 billion. As?’
The state secretary in charge of the VVD, De Vries, says they face implementation problems, staff shortages and technical problems. Cynical, says Leijten. ‘De Vries now says he will bring in private companies for the latter part of that treatment to expedite it. Then do it for the whole situation, I would say.’ According to Leijten, all the training shows that the tax and customs administration ultimately doesn’t want it.
“We’re being teased and it’s not okay”
Leijten argues that the tax and customs administration has been compromised to such an extent that it needs to be removed from the decision-making chain. “And the Secretary of State dare not do it. He says he can’t, but he doesn’t dare.’