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"Mr President, firstly I congratulate the rapporteur of the Committee on Budgets on the work he has done this year. I also thank Mr Wynn for the cheerful way in which he conducts the Budget Committee, a new experience for me. The rapporteur has done very well given the constraints he has been under this year. Whilst the budget lines under the responsibility of the Committee of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy are not great in monetary terms, they play a vital role in facilitating the development of the Union’s policies, and particularly in bringing closer to the Union and realising the needs and desires of the ordinary citizens.
The Budgets Committee rapporteur has acknowledged a number of points we have made and has enabled us to maintain spending in most areas and develop it modestly in one or two. I cannot thank the Council in the same way when I examine their PDB. They have to give greater priority to the interests and needs of citizens.
Utilising the amounts determined last year through the conciliation on the Whitehead report, the consumer affairs budget lines will continue to build confidence amongst the public, reassuring them that we are not just a Europe open for business but are also campaigning for citizens’ rights as consumers. The additional monies granted for the additional posts in the Veterinary Health Office in Dublin will reassure our citizens that we are taking steps to protect the quality and safety of the food on their plates. The new health responsibilities put into the Amsterdam Treaty can be developed using the additional monies granted on the health budget line. I particularly welcome the possibility of developing new strategies for dealing with mental health problems and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and CJD. Equally, as we come to the end of the fifth action plan on the environment, the monies available to begin development of the sixth action plan are most welcome.
If I have a disappointment, it concerns the rapporteur’s approach to the various agencies of the Union, set up by the Commission. I was the only draftsman, along with Mr Bourlanges, to meet the representatives of the agencies and I heard good arguments for increasing monies available to those agencies for the work they are doing with the applicant states of Eastern and Central Europe and for bringing on to the market orphan drugs that are so vital for a relatively small number of people with diseases difficult to treat. I feel that perhaps more consideration could have been given to the arguments they made. I am very disappointed the rapporteur of the Budgets Committee did not accept the validity of the arguments as I have done. I can only hope that in the following years we can address the problems they have identified."@en1
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