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Madam President, Mr Titley is a good man and this proposal is full of good intention. However, I am against it.
I am against it because there are better uses for this level of public expense. The case for the project is overstated and I do not think it is financially credible. In the UK we have a traditional saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and here we have the EU, mother of inefficiency, providing no necessity but forcing a new invention. I believe that you are all looking for new uses to justify the huge cost of the Galileo satellite project.
What about the additional cost of this project both for the taxpayer and for the motorist? How many false alarms will this eCall system trigger? Will it divert the currently under-funded public services from real emergencies? Which expensive new service will it call? All this rings alarm bells for me. If you believe Britain wastes public money, multiply that inefficiency when considering EU projects like this.
This project provokes the expression ‘EU ain’t seen nothing yet’ or even the Northern expression ‘Ee, did you call?’"@en1
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