Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-15-Speech-3-235"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Risk and crisis management in agriculture (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060215.15.3-235"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-02-15-Speech-3-2362
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I thank Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf for his report. It is good to see the Commissioner here this evening, because the Commission has put forward a flexible approach to crisis management in agriculture. Animal diseases and natural disasters are going to happen and we must find a flexible approach to these. The CAP reform is now moving towards offering help for farmers to help themselves. That really has to be the way forward. If you take what happened with the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK, the huge sums of money that were needed to eradicate the disease could never have been funded by an insurance company on its own. We should perhaps look at a form of insurance with the Member State and the European Union as the insurer of last resort, so that they can actually step in when there are huge disasters. Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf referred to young farmers in his report. There is a special case for a certain amount of extra help for those setting up business early on in their career, because they do not have the capital behind them and they need extra support. If Mr Titford had still been in the Chamber, I would have liked to take him up on his comment that Commissioner Fischler and the European Commission were to blame for the mishandling of the foot-and-mouth crisis. Had he been part of the inquiry here in the European Parliament, he would have found that was not the case. I have to admit to you that the blame lay with the UK Government and a Prime Minister who was hell bent on calling a general election and wanted to get the disease under control. He had a huge contiguous cull of millions of animals that was completely unnecessary. We could have used vaccines, which were also ruled out. I would have liked to put Mr Titford right on that and other points."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-04-06)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-02-01--2007-06-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2007-02-14)3 chair; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-22--2007-02-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-28--2007-03-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-02-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Neil Parish (PPE-DE ). –"1

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