“The number of people with social vulnerability status has increased significantly with each election. It increased especially during the 2012 parliamentary elections.”

“Mr Koba [Subeliani], I would like to remind you that when you were in government the budget of the Ministry of Refugees was GEL 25 million. It is now GEL 50 million which means that we’ve doubled it.”

“Georgia has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world and one of the lowest education levels.”

According to Davit Sergeenko, the National Statistics Office of Georgia determines the price change on medications by population surveys which do not reflect the actual situation. The Minister says that medication has become cheaper.

On 2 July 2014, in his interview with the media, the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs

“Teachers’ wages have been raised and tens of millions of lari have been allocated for the construction and repairs of school buildings.”

“Mr Ivanishvili never said anything about reducing the petrol price by one lari. Please provide the source of such information. None of the members of the coalition have ever said that the petrol price would be reduced by one lari or that the electricity

“We have 16% growth in export in the first five months. The export of local, especially agricultural, products is growing.”

“Revenues from income tax have been increased and, as you know, income tax directly depends on the amount of wages. Hence, since the revenues have increased, the wages must have been increased as well.”

“There were 108 murders in 2011 and 74 of them got media coverage. In 2013, 50 out of 52 murders were covered by the mass media.”

“There have been no cases of human rights violations in the pre-detention centres. Foreign experts visited Georgia for a second time, studied the situation and saw that we have made big progress in this field.”

“According to the Criminal Code, it is possible to commence proceedings based upon a fact, not a suicide. “

“73% of [Georgia’s] indigenous population is unemployed.”

“New jobs are not being created today, what we have is also being lost and this suspended economy is creating problems for the population.”

“Our government has allocated GEL 400 of aid for each veteran for the 69th anniversary [of the Great Patriotic War] and GEL 200 for each family which lost its breadwinner. You are aware that the state has launched a health-care programme which includes a

”Since 2004, officers, who worked at the Fire Safety Office had no longer been considered as employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and had not been enjoying the benefits provided by the social security system for its employees. We will restore thi