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"Mr President, I want to congratulate our rapporteur and the working party set up by the Committee on Budgets on their creditable handling of this matter. What has become apparent is something of which one gets a sense in today’s sitting, namely that those who call for transparency often, at the end of the day, do not want the facts to come out, and – as the rapporteur has observed – it sometimes turns out that the facts are not quite so scandalous and not quite so extraordinary as what they would have liked to see in the newspapers, but the Committee on Budgetary Control, the rapporteur and the working party have acquired these documents by honest means, and they stand by them. I warmly congratulate them on the results that have come to light.
I have no great desire to go over again how appalling it was that so much was superimposed on this debate. Everyone has an opinion on Strasbourg, on Brussels, and on other things, and that makes it more difficult to do the job properly. I think it has been done rather well, and Mr Ferber’s report deserves our support.
What are the lessons we should learn from this? For a start, our own administrators, our own Bureau – of which, or so I believe, our current president is a member – were in possession of information that was not supplied to us at a time when Mr Ferber was already working on his report. That is not acceptable, and there is a need for change here. A different way of doing things must be required in future, or else we will have to look out for ourselves.
Secondly, another lesson that I think we can learn from what Mr Ferber has written is that those who run this place should be required to review old contracts rather than waiting a thousand years for something else to crop up; that must not be allowed to happen.
Thirdly, I think that all those who believe the current debate on building policy in Strasbourg could be combined with the ‘one seat’ debate, should first be sure in their own minds – which I am not – how things stand as regards this House’s policy on the other places where it meets."@en1
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