Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-13-Speech-2-024"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20000613.3.2-024"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Madam President, the final draft agenda is based on a part-session starting on Tuesday 13 June. On 7 June, I sent you a letter regarding the proceedings for Monday 12 June, Whit Monday. You granted the request a while back to cancel the parliamentary sitting due to take place on this Christian public holiday, and rightly so. Later on, however, it was announced that the Members could sign the attendance register between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. It now looks as if we will need to be financially reimbursed for cancelling a working day.
Madam President, how will yesterday’s attendance register be published and what can still be done to prevent this attendance register from costing the European taxpayer any money? The electorate expect us to extend their democratic rights, not to act in our own self-interest. To reimburse a day’s expenses for a public holiday would result in the electorate staying at home in even greater numbers at the next elections.
I would ask you to give Parliament the opportunity, by no later than July, to state that Monday’s signatures should not lead to reimbursements of any kind. An exception could possibly be made for those who can demonstrate that they were required to leave on Sunday on account of the remoteness of their homes, if, for example, they live in Finland or Greece."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples