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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.19990917.2.5-056"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-17-Speech-5-0572
lpv:speaker	lp:Roger Helmer2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, in my first speech in this Chamber, I had hoped to speak about linking the banks of lifts electronically to make them more efficient, about ventilation in the bathrooms, about the air conditioning and about the dog-sick carpets in the bar areas. But in the interests of time, I will pass that by. I would like to respond to the first floor speaker today who asked if any Members had previously had better offices; we had such fine offices here, had we ever had better ones? Well I certainly had a better one before I gave up the day job a year ago, and every single Member of this House has a much better office in Brussels. That surely is the key point. The reason for all the carping and complaints about this building is, as my colleague, Mr Callanan says, that actually we do not want to come here and we want to stay in Brussels. We ought to get that sorted out. Just one very brief suggestion for improving the general ambience of the place as long as we do have to come here. Our President, earlier on, said that we would look at the decoration of it. This building is full of dead spaces and blank walls which are extremely tedious and unfriendly and inhuman. I believe that the art museums of Europe have many more pictures and art works than they are able to display. They have cellars and vaults full of pictures for which no display space is available. Why does this Parliament not contact some of these museums and say that we can provide large spaces of wall on which some of these pictures could be displayed. I suggest that this would be a vast improvement in this building."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-01-16)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Helmer (PPE )."1

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