Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-26-Speech-3-179"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-04-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Discharges for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2004 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060426.15.3-179"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-04-26-Speech-3-1802
lpv:speaker	lp:Nils Lundgren2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-06-12)3 vice-chair; CONT (2004-07-23--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Junilistan (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I want to begin by thanking the officials who have helped me with the work on granting discharge. Their efforts have been admirable and quite extraordinarily extensive. As has been said, the work has, moreover, been something of an uphill struggle. Information has now come to light indicating that Strasbourg wrongly charged Parliament rent for a number of years. I wish to emphasise that, before discharge can be granted, Strasbourg must give Parliament access to all the documents concerning the relevant buildings. If it does not, Parliament must take the matter to OLAF. What is more, Parliament must not of course sign any contract of sale until this issue has been clarified. If the EU institutions had had a clear willingness to investigate and to demand accountability and if the Committee on Budgetary Control had carried out its task properly and acted as the scrutinising body it is supposed to be, these things need not have happened. There must be a clear willingness thoroughly to investigate irregularities whenever they occur, and not just when the media has got wind of them. I also wish to add that, in its treatment of Mr Ferber’s report, the Committee on Budgetary Control airbrushed out the report’s criticisms of MEPs’ voluntary pensions system. It is a system with no legal basis and no provisions regarding what should be done about deficits in the fund. It is unfair that European taxpayers should be made liable for covering deficits in the pension fund. The fact that Members’ contributions to the system are paid from Parliament’s system for refunding general expenses is also remarkable. What needs to happen is for members of the fund to pay their contributions out of their personal income. The system should be abolished."@en1

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