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"Mr President, I arrived in this building, which is truly magnificent to my mind, full of anticipation on Monday, yet the very first thing that happened, and this is something that other people experienced too, was that I got stuck in the lift. Whilst I do not have any complaints about that, for I was freed half an hour later, I did just want to mention the touching solidarity displayed by my fellow Members of Parliament who could see me through a chink in the door, asked how things were, and on hearing that things were not going well, could not get away fast enough.
Anyhow, I am pleased about the action that has now been taken by the President, following which, to my pleasure, I have been able to use the same lift this week without further hitches.
Mr President, there are two specific questions that I want to ask. Firstly, the entrance to the Council of Europe’s building has been closed off with steel doors since the previous part-session. This is a shame, not just because it means that there is less choice available to us as regards restaurants, but more importantly, there is a library in that building which we find very useful. In any case, this access route’s being closed off is not in any way symbolic, or I hope not anyway. For at the end of the day there ought in fact to be more communication between the Council of Europe and ourselves, not less.
On a final note, I want to endorse the comment that was made earlier about the possibility of our personal staff coming to sit in the hemicycle. It wasn’t allowed before, even when there was plenty of room. I make this point not just because it is a shame for our own staff that they never get to see this chamber from the inside, but because it means that we are completely unable to communicate with our own assistants.
It would be difficult enough if they were to be sitting up there, but I think it would be a good idea to find a way for us to be able to communicate with each other all the same. As things stand they have to watch the television screens in their office and if they then want to pass a report to us, they have to run here really fast, hopefully not getting stuck in the lift on the way, and get a message to us in whatever way they can. That is a complicated way of going about things and I would like this to be looked at."@en1
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