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"Mr President, it is important that when we consider volunteering, we actually consider the barriers to volunteering and how we overcome those barriers.
Consider the case, in my own constituency, of a lady who ran a Sunday school for 30 years. Suddenly, she was presented with paperwork by a local official. She decided to close that Sunday school down. Consider a friend of mine who was asked to take part in a volunteer football team for local disadvantaged youth. He was sent paperwork of 150 pages. He turned down the opportunity. Consider the example of a friend of mine who was going to set up an amateur dramatic society in his local village, to encourage the local youth to come off the streets. When he looked at the issue of liability insurance and health and safety issues, he decided it was too much and decided not to set up that scheme.
When you talk to the people affected by them, you find that all these barriers originate from EU legislation and are gold-plated by local civil servants. So, rather than talking about all this bureaucracy of setting up a central portal to encourage volunteering, we should be removing the barriers to volunteering, in order to encourage the benefits to society."@en1
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