Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-29-Speech-1-009"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Membership of Parliament2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040329.3.1-009"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-29-Speech-1-0102
lpv:speaker	lp:Martin Schulz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; PES (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to give your attention, for a moment, to something that is not on the agenda, namely a rather extraordinary occurrence. I hope you will not object to my mentioning it, and I ask for your help. There is a Member of this House who has today made, in the German press, and to the extensive and serious allegations against – in his own words – some 200 Members of this House, who he believes to be guilty of offences against the rules by which this House is governed. This has to do with the payment of attendance allowances and with who is entitled to sign the attendance registers. There is nothing new about this; it is something we have had to discuss on many occasions. What I do, however, regard as a very serious matter, is that the Member in question has today told the that he knows of 7 200 specific instances in which this has happened – 7 200 specific instances! I believe this allegation to be so serious that I must ask you, Mr President, to get in touch with the Member in question. I would like to see these 7 200 instances brought before you, and I believe that the relevant supervisory bodies – whoever it is that has responsibility for this, be it the quaestors, the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Court of Auditors, OLAF – should deal with them. If there is evidence of illegality here, such breaches of the law must be investigated. If no such evidence exists, the fact that 7 200 offences have been alleged cannot be allowed to rest. What I ask you to do is to help the responsible authorities discharge their responsibility for clearing up any breaches of the law that have occurred. If though, what has been done is in conformity with our rules, then that must be established as a matter of fact."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Deutsche Presseagentur"1

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