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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:State of the Louise Weiss building2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990917.2.5-034"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-17-Speech-5-0352
lpv:speaker	lp:Baroness Sarah Ludford2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am sorry to have lost the opportunity to bend Madam President’s ear. I wanted to ask her to plead with Air France not to switch, as is rumoured, its flight from City Airport to Gatwick – that is if the flight works, because this week it was cancelled. I wanted to thank her for being willing to give her personal attention to these matters. If we are navel-gazing and examining our working conditions and those of our staff this morning, it is not a question of comfort and convenience, but because we want to be efficient as elected representatives and in spending taxpayers’ money. Strasbourg is indeed a beautiful city. If I was a tourist I would have no problem spending one week out of four here, it would be delightful. Many parts of this building are impressive and beautiful, although it is also, in my opinion, grandiose. I concur with what has been said about waste and the need for recycling and energy saving and I believe that we must practice what we preach both in the area of health and safety and energy saving. I would like to raise three particular points. First of all I am unhappy that we have lost one-third of our offices to an unnecessary bathroom. Please could I get mine removed and have extra office working space instead? Secondly, in the ladies toilets we are faced with constant flooding, and it is particularly unfair on the cleaners who have to constantly go round mopping up. As far as I can see, it is a very simple problem of excessive water pressure so the water spills everywhere around the basin and on to the floor. Could someone reduce the water pressure? Finally, could we start the session on a Thursday at 2 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. and have the votes on urgencies at 4.30 p.m. This would mean that I could catch the 6 p.m. flight, assuming of course it still exists, to City Airport. This might help a lot of people if we could leave on Thursday night instead of Friday. I am conscious of the fact that it costs, I think, around EUR 200 million a year extra to have this travelling circus and I am indignant that the European Parliament is unable to decide its own place of work. We are wasting taxpayers’ money and we are not as efficient as we ought to be as elected representatives. I take my job seriously and I am sure all my colleagues have also come here to work, not to treat this place as a club, but to actually do their jobs as elected representatives. I want to be able to go back to my constituents and tell them that I am an efficient representative."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ludford (ELDR )."1

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