Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-20-Speech-3-087"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000920.7.3-087"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-20-Speech-3-0882
lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"The Commission has proposed an amended directive on health and safety at work. This report suggests it should be longer and more detailed. UK Conservatives believe that we should vote against it for that very reason. This is not a question of whether or not health and safety at work is an important issue. Of course it is. It is not a question of whether or not the recommendations in the report are sound. Many of them are and Peter Skinner has put a lot of thought into his work. It is a question of how the European Parliament should be spending its time and be seen to be spending its time. It is a question of what Parliament should be looking at as its priorities. It is a question of whether it should be for the Commission and for the European Parliament to prescribe the fine detail of people’s working and waking lives. There is a problem in the UK, but not confined to the UK. The EU is seen to be interfering. The European Parliament is often seen to be interfering even more. It is not seen as focusing on the big issues. Our constituents ask us why they should vote for anybody at the European elections. They ask: what are you doing for us? What shall we answer? We have the opportunity to tell our people that we do care about the big issues that they care about, that we can help deliver a better peace, security, prosperity, environment and quality of life – issues that can genuinely be helped best at a European level. Or we can answer that the EU, through the Commission and Parliament, is about deciding whether or not it should be legal for one person to stand at the bottom of a ladder holding on to it while another person climbs up it. This is the issue that we are discussing today. Let us oppose this latest example of red tape from the top. At some time or other, Parliament must give a clear signal as to its true sense of purpose, its true priorities. I say: Let it be now."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bushill-Matthews (PPE-DE )."1

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