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"Madam President, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the name of my group. Yesterday in the debate, constraints of time meant that none of us were able to speak, but this is a proposal which we have supported wholeheartedly in committee and which we supported wholeheartedly today. I was particularly glad that Amendment No 9 was defeated and that we carried the directive substantially in the form in which it left the Legal Affairs Committee under the able guidance of the rapporteur, Mr Miller.
This is a long-awaited directive and it is extremely important to disabled people. Our own disability intergroup has been campaigning on it for a long time and so has the European Disability Movement. It has taken nine years to get this far.
What we are accomplishing are secure, minimum safety standards for the design of buses operating in Europe and secure basic requirements to ensure access for disabled people and others with reduced mobility, including older people – Mr Fatuzzo and others no doubt – and parents with children using urban buses.
This is really important. My group wishes to declare its solidarity with all those who will be assisted by this. One of the marks of enhanced civilisation in my lifetime has been the far greater attention that we pay in public places and public activities to ensuring that our fellow citizens, who have the grave misfortune to suffer from one or other kind of disability or handicap, are fully admitted to public life in our societies. We can be proud of that and glad that this directive has been passed."@en1
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