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dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Improving the mental health of the population towards a strategy on mental health for the EU (debate)2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Frieda Brepoels2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams - Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I have nothing but gratitude for the Commissioner for the Green Paper, and even more so for Mr Bowis for the important work he has done. It has indeed turned out to be a very balanced report. After all, not for nothing was it almost unanimously supported in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and we are therefore hopeful that this report will be carried by an overwhelming majority in this House tomorrow, and will bring the necessary pressure to bear on the Commission so that it can take the necessary initiatives in line with its competences, because, clearly, much can be improved in the area of metal health care in the European Union. Patients still have no say. Cooperation between the different care institutions is still lacking, and the sector is facing a serious lack of funding. The added value of policy at EU level which we need to pursue is mainly in the area of promoting exchange and cooperation between Member States. We must, above all, be able to improve the connection between the various and different measures at Member State level, both nationally and regionally. Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission’s Green Paper has not only cranked up a debate here in Parliament, national and regional governments have also been encouraged to make more funds available. When in my country, in Flanders, the national health survey showed that as many as one in five Flemings experience psychological problems and one in eight even serious problems, the Flemish Welfare Minister promptly decided to considerably reinforce the mental health centres, particularly those for the target groups that suffer the most, namely children and young people. Patient organisations followed suit. They asked representatives of ADHD Europe, for example, to home in on the living conditions of ADHD patients, since originally, the Green Paper did not even make a mention of this developmental illness in children, which, if left untreated, can do so much damage and cause so much distress, not only to the patient, but also in the form of costs to the health care system, the school system and the economic system. I am therefore delighted that our rapporteur was prepared to approve a few important additions in this respect. I would also thank the fellow Members for their support. I am now hopeful that the Commission, on the basis of the above, will be able to present a proposal for an EU mental health strategy by the end of this year. I wish the Commissioner every success in this."@en1

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