Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-13-Speech-4-089"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Rights of homosexuals in EU institutions2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011213.5.4-089"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-13-Speech-4-0902
lpv:speaker	lp:Mary Elizabeth Banotti2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Commissioner Kinnock for his very clear reply to the oral question. My point directly follows on from Mrs Eriksson's. It is clear that, in many Member States, homosexual couples do not have any rights and there are grave injustices within Member States. The only light at the end of the tunnel as regards my own country, Ireland, is that our Law Reform Commission announced yesterday – and I suspect it is because they saw something coming down the line from the Commissioner – that they were going to make that part of their research programme for the next year. Hopefully that will result in the justice that is clearly the right of stable couples, whether they be homosexual or heterosexual. We have had situations where, because of the lack of rights for homosexual couples, people have been evicted from local authority housing on the death of the other partner who was the named tenant. We also see that huge death duties accrue to partners who have bought houses together where, on the death of one partner, the other is faced with a massive tax bill, very often resulting in that person having to sell what was, in the truest sense of the word, a family home. I know you will be addressing some of the anomalies that exist in this but, as Mrs Eriksson has rightly said, they exist in a significant number of Member States and it could cause serious problems in terms of discrimination when we come to implement charges. I wish you every success and I am extremely glad that we have had an opportunity to raise the issue within this House because there is widespread support for it."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-03-28--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; European Parliament (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Quaestors (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Banotti (PPE-DE )."1

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