Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-09-Speech-3-229-000"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20120509.23.3-229-000"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
"Mr President, each year, Members of this House receive some EUR 50 000 by way of a general expenditure allowance to cover their office costs. The purpose to which that money should be put is clearly stated in the Rules. However, it is paid into the private accounts of Members, there are no audits carried out and no one knows what happens if there is a surplus in those accounts. I am in no doubt at all that many Members simply regard this as pocket money, although it is a huge sum of money well in excess of the average income of most of our citizens, with some of that money probably finding its way into the political parties that we represent. That means it is money going from the public purse with no transparency at all.
Parliament has called for transparency; Parliament has called for the Secretary-General to bring forward recommendations for new procedures. This is a scandal waiting to happen. I ask you, Mr President, to put pressure on the Secretary-General to do what Parliament has requested of him, and to bring forward procedures to ensure that this money is spent entirely transparently."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata | |
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples