From the 2026 budget audit
265.4 millió Ft for 'sustainability tasks' — no deliverable specified.
Another residually-named discretionary line: undefined purpose, no stated output, no counterparty whose reliance must be protected.
Roughly 66 Ft per taxpayer per year — 265.4 millió Ft disbursed under a label that describes a topic, not an activity or a product.
What you see — and what you don't
The seen: recipients of commissioned sustainability work. The unseen: the wage-earner whose tax funds work they cannot examine, assessed against no output, at whatever scale the officeholder determines.
Objection
"Sustainability work is important — this covers legitimate environmental monitoring and research."
Answer
If the work is legitimate, it can be named and tendered. 'Sustainability tasks' as a budget line describes an aspiration, not a deliverable. Named monitoring programmes, named research contracts with defined scope — those can be assessed. An undefined residual cannot, whatever its stated topic.
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The analyst's verdict
Sustainability tasks
Rationale
A residually-named "sustainability tasks" line with no specified deliverable. As with the energy-and-climate-policy line, the problem is not the topic but the form: an undefined discretionary line attached to a ministry, fundable at whatever level the officeholder chooses, priced against no output. Immediate Cut.
Transition mechanism
Eliminate in the 2026 cycle.
Affected groups
Recipients of commissioned sustainability work.
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