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"Mr President, I would also like to congratulate the rapporteur on her work. We are looking for a greater role as a parliament in ensuring that we can conclude agreements with regard to social inclusion, so as to best respond to the needs and demands of those people we represent. Parliament's role must be a constructive one. However, I have some concerns regarding the amount of legislation sought by this report and the move towards creating more bureaucracy and red tape, which could work to the detriment of the ideals underlying the social policy agenda.
We must favour creating a proper business environment where employment can be created, and where proper and real jobs can be maintained within the European Union. Nowadays when we look around the world we can see how it is more common and easier for industry and business to relocate outside areas with high social costs and high taxation. We must work towards a more progressive system in which workers are entitled to keep as much of their earned income as possible and there is better provision of services in the social sphere in areas such as housing, health and education through the national exchequer. We may not achieve those with the proposals contained in this report. I am in favour of the report, but I have specific concerns.
We must also look at the whole legislative process implied by what is being called for in this report. Although Parliament is seeking a greater role, more involvement in coordination and quicker action, with hindsight it is also looking for more legislation to be put in place. Legislative instruments are called for when negotiations are not concluded in relation to training, lifelong learning, organisation of work, adjustments, new forms of work, guidelines for negotiations by social partners and supplementary sickness insurance.
However, the Commission has proposed something different. The Commission is taking a far more proactive and forward-looking approach in its proposals. We must support the call for research, which unfortunately was not highlighted within the committee report. There has to be a radical increase in employment participation. An emphasis must be put on better jobs. More must be done towards building a European labour market with more mobility included within it.
Finally, we must play a greater and clearer role as regards the place within society of those with disabilities. These people represent 10 % of the population, yet they are excluded from so many walks of life. We have not yet achieved as much as we should have done for those people."@en1
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