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"Madam President, on a point of order. I wish to make three brief points. The first concerns the point of procedure addressed by Mr Oostlander, namely that various colleagues felt, because of the sensitivity of the issue in hand, that they should like to have in their own language, as is their right, the text of the report and all the amendments to it. This matter was signalled clearly at the Conference of Presidents last week – on more than one occasion, I understand. I myself was absent, but I have had this confirmed to me.
In that case, when the sensitivity of the availability of documents was clearly signalled, why was it not prioritised by the services in such a way as to avoid this? That is my first question. Given the sensitivity, the Bureau, the House and the Conference of Presidents should be given a detailed account of this breakdown in the system.
My second point is that Mr Oostlander is perfectly within his rights to say that, under Rule 115, proceeding with the debate or the vote can be questioned as the documentation was not available 24 hours in advance. He is perfectly correct to insist on the application of that rule, if he should so wish.
It is my understanding that all the documents and amendments in all languages were finally available about 3 p.m. yesterday. I should like to have that confirmed. If that is true, I should then like to suggest that we change our order of business for today and, respecting the 24-hour deadline, I would ask the rapporteur, Mrs Buitenweg, to introduce her report at 3 p.m., followed by a debate, urgencies and then the vote, which would fully respect the 24-hour deadline.
There is one point that, to many of us, is the issue of substance in this report. We have under the Treaties the power now to bring in new anti-discrimination legislation. Of all the areas of political sensitivity in contemporary Europe, that dealing with racism and xenophobia should be given the highest priority in this House. The Portuguese Presidency will organise a Social Affairs Council which we can engage with if we deliver a view. I appeal to the House to make creative use of the possibility open to us, in setting our agenda, to recognise this substantive political requirement and to facilitate a debate at 3 p.m. and a vote at 6 p.m. or thereafter this evening."@en1
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