Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-12-Speech-2-214"

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lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Fine Gael Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, firstly, I welcome the progress made by Romania on its path towards membership of the European Union. In a short amount of time a lot has been achieved and I want to congratulate the Romanian authorities on this. We have heard this afternoon about the areas where more progress is required and our genuine concerns about how it will all be financed. Despite Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne’s very positive report on the improvement in childcare in Romania, the care of children and young adults in state institutions is an issue. I am talking particularly about those children and young adults with disabilities. Less than a year ago, Amnesty International launched a disturbing report on the tragic deaths of a number of patients in a psychiatric hospital in Romania. The report indicated that the deaths were mainly due to malnutrition and hypothermia and were sadly not an exception in the Romanian mental health care system. I know that the European Union, working with the Romanian authorities, has been involved in very important work to reduce the number of children and young adults in institutionalised care. However, Amnesty International has pointed out that not enough account has been taken of the many young adults who have been inappropriately transferred from the state institutions that were closed down and have ended up in psychiatric hospitals, where they may well languish for the rest of their lives. I accept that things have greatly improved in Romania. The Commission recently informed me of all its work in this regard, but a lot more remains to be done in this area. It is simply not acceptable that children and young adults in Romania are held in inappropriate care. Indeed, it is not acceptable that this should happen in any EU Member State. I support the accession of Romania to the European Union, but I would urge the Romanian authorities, the Commission, this Parliament and all relevant bodies not to forget the real people I am talking about: those who do not have a voice. Their situation needs to be carefully monitored and improved in the run-up to accession and thereafter."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McGuinness (PPE-DE )."1
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Applications for accession of Bulgaria and Romania2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050412.27.2-214"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-12-Speech-2-2152
lpv:speaker	lp:Mairead McGUINNESS2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3

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