Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-16-Speech-4-234"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Special report by the European Ombudsman on Commission recruitment2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001116.14.4-234"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-16-Speech-4-2352
lpv:speaker	lp:Nirj Deva2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, before I begin may I also recommend that while they are replacing the wiring they could paint all the black walls white or some other colour. May I begin by congratulating Mr Bösch on an excellent report and also congratulate the European Ombudsman on the work he is doing. I know that, though this was before my day, there was concern in the House about whether to have an Ombudsman at all, because it would then seem like a conflict of interests. But history has shown that this is not the case and that an Ombudsman does work very hard to protect the interests of our constituents and becomes a point of access for legitimising complaints and finding out what has gone wrong. I had the privilege of serving on the select committee on the Ombudsman in the House of Commons and that was a very powerful committee. We could summon anyone in the country before the Ombudsman committee, and the select committee procedure which I will discuss in two minutes is something that we could learn from. Citizens of the European Union should receive a positive impression when encountering the Community institutions. The question is, has this been achieved? I fear that the short answer is: "no". Clearly, as this report reflects, improvements are being made. I congratulate the Commission on accepting the four recommendations made in the special report on the Ombudsman. Access to official documents by citizens of the Union is a hallmark of a responsible and fully functioning democracy. The fact that applicants for Community institution jobs should see their marked scripts shows that institutions are confident in the way they run their application and selection procedures. It is a hallmark of a confident democracy if the processes by which selection is made is done openly and without any recourse to confidentiality or secrecy. In the select committees of the House of Commons we had the power to introduce a regime of monitoring of every level of the executive, not only the ministers in the same way we monitor the Commission sometimes in terms of them coming here and answering questions, but a two-hour session with the particular minister with officials in attendance where the elected Members could ask questions and be prepared to ask questions in detail and to get detailed answers. This is the beginning of opening up the process of government and making it transparent. In our resolution we talk about transparent government and we should start to implement it in the European Parliament."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Deva (PPE-DE )."1

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