Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-23-Speech-2-160"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2002 budget2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011023.7.2-160"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-23-Speech-2-1612
lpv:speaker	lp:Roy Perry2
lpv:spoken text	". – Mr President, I apologise to the rapporteurs that I was not able to be here at the beginning of the debate, but I would wager a euro that nobody has yet touched on the subject that I will raise on behalf of the Committee on Petitions. Deep in the Buitenweg report is Amendment No 2022 on Budget Line 250 and this makes a new proposal to allow in certain circumstances, individual expenses to be paid to particular petitioners if they feel it appropriate to come to Parliament to put their case. I want to thank the rapporteur for accepting this report and the committee for passing it. Parliaments, you know, have various responsibilities. They decide who is to be the government, of course, that is not a responsibility of this Parliament. They decide budgets, but you know, we have only partial budgetary powers. We have no powers over taxation, we have no powers over 50% of the expenditure more or less devoted to agriculture. Parliaments decide legislation: that is a power we have to share with the Council of Ministers and we have no powers of legislative initiative. But parliaments also have a responsibility to protect the rights of the individual citizens in dealing with the bureaucracy and that is a responsibility that we discharge in this Parliament through the work of the Committee on Petitions and the work of the Ombudsman. I would say to Parliament this afternoon that the money spent on petitions and the EUR 3 million that we make available to the Office of the Ombudsman is money that is extremely well spent. It works out at less than EUR 0.1 per person per annum, so it cannot be said to be a great deal of money, but it is money that is being spent on real European democracy and we want to ensure that we keep that up and that we see that we do more in future years."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Perry (PPE-DE ),"1 "draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Petitions"1

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