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"Mr President, as representative of the Pensioners’ Party, I was very happy to vote for the Skinner report, which lays down safety measures to prevent occupational accidents. My friend and fellow party member, Mr Bushill-Matthews, called for the report to be rejected. In response, I would say to him, in his absence, that if the Member States had managed to curtail fatal and serious injuries then I would have agreed with him. However, the number of fatal occupational accidents has increased in recent years and an ever increasing number of people are being widowed or orphaned due to occupational accidents, particularly in the construction industry, where this directive is intended to reduce the number of accidents. I therefore feel that it is right and proper for the European Union to intervene in cases where the Member States are not managing to achieve sufficient success in important areas such as the reduction of occupational accidents."@en1
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