It (still) does not have a new First President, but it continues its work of evaluation of public policies. Pending the successor of Didier Migaud - the names of Pierre Moscovici and Eric Woerth insistently circulate - the Court of Auditors makes public, this Tuesday morning, its traditional annual report.
Last year, the Court notably pinned down food security and funeral directors. In its 2020 edition, the report of the Elders of the Cambon street targets jumbled up the information system of human resources of the National education, the drones of the army, the system of the public slaughterhouses or the complementary retirement Agirc-Arrco .
Debt, a major black spot in public finances
"Public debt remains close to 100% of GDP" and this ratio would still not have dropped in 2019. The contrast is clear with the average of our partners in the euro zone excluding France and Germany, where, compared to GDP, the debt fell by more than 9 points. And among our German neighbors, good students, "the debt would have dropped below 60% of GDP in 2019", assures the Court before tackling: in France, "the year 2020 does not expect any progress in the structural recovery of accounts ".
A saber cut for Polytechnique!
The strong in math have a house ... that has a problem with numbers. "The school has not been able to provide a full cost of tuition for students in the engineering cycle", deplores the Court which, on the basis of the 2016-2017 data, the minimum figure at € 36,370 (excluding remuneration of pupils) per year. It is much more expensive than in other public engineering schools which invoiced on average € 20,728 per student in 2013.
Another red card: the “little diversified” recruitment of engineering students. On entry to X, the proportion of girls has stagnated for 10 years (17.9% in 2019 compared to 17.3% in 2009) and recruitment is "excessively concentrated" on children of "managers and higher intellectual professions »(73% admitted to the competition in 2019).
As for the proportion of scholarship recipients, it fell from 16.8% in 2011 to 11.4% in 2019. A score much lower than the proportion observed in other engineering schools (26% on average) or preparatory classes to grandes écoles (28.8%).
Pensions: a risk of data theft
At the turn of a rather critical analysis of the Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension system - "issues of simplification, legibility and transparency of the plan remain" - the Elders recall that five insurance companies of the Malakoff-Médéric and Humanis groups had were given formal notice in 2018 by the CNIL to "stop using personal data collected exclusively for commercial prospecting in order to pay retirement allowances".
Then they plant this banner: “this hijacking of data illustrates the limits of a system, entrusting to groups with a competitive activity, the management of supplementary pensions. The current or future reforms which lead to the pooling of an increasing number of individual data are likely to reinforce these risks ”.
In National Education, 400 million euros gone up in smoke
In 2007, the department decided to modernize its payroll and career management. The SIRHEN software, piloted by external companies, is set up to manage the human resources of 1.1 million agents of National Education. But very quickly, the initial invoice - of 60 million euros in five years - was insufficient. "In 2011, after an initial audit with critical conclusions, the budget was raised and the calendar stretched," recalls the Court's report. But nothing is done to go up the slope. In July 2018, the ministry simply decides to stop the program, which will have cost the modest sum of 400 million euros.
A clear opinion on public slaughterhouses
The financial magistrates "conducted a vast investigation concerning the 80 public slaughterhouses for slaughter animals (municipal or inter-municipal) in nine regions". The Court had already examined this subject in its annual public reports of 1990 and 1996. It indicates that its investigations have "confirmed the risk that such equipment poses for their home communities, whose finances they imbalance and obey. 'other investment prospects'.
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In the end, the Wise Men rest on "the question of maintaining these public services, which are generally not very profitable or are used almost privately by meat manufacturers".
