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"Mr President, I should like to congratulate Mr Ferber on the way in which he has presented the discharge and the report, and on his working methods. I – being a mere acting member on the Committee on Budgetary Control – should also like to extend warm thanks to my group colleagues Mr Busuttil, Mr Stubb and Mrs Grässle, for the excellent working relationship we enjoyed with Mr Ferber, not least in the preparatory meetings of the working party of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats.
Mr Ferber has tabled a critical report – critical, that is, about the buildings and about a number of services, whilst nevertheless being fair. It contains a number of sound recommendations for the way in which changes can be made for the better. For example, a discharge report must be used in order to control Parliament’s own housekeeping and budget more effectively. Needless to say, he devoted the necessary attention to the issue of the buildings, the problem we faced with the City of Strasbourg. He spelled out quite clearly, but also fairly, that at times Parliament, and not just the other parties in the conflict, is also to blame to some extent.
Accordingly, whilst we Dutch Christian Democrats subscribe to the thrust of the Ferber report with regard to spending of the 2004 Parliament budget, as prepared and adopted in the Committee on Budgetary Control, I should nevertheless like to make a few observations, which I see in isolation from the Ferber report, not least because he has done an excellent job with regard to Strasbourg.
Tomorrow, in the Committee on Budgets, we will be discussing a possible purchase. It is obvious that my party is opposed to this, not least on account of the fact that the discussion that is being held surrounding this topic – and I only need to refer to Mr Stubb's words, with which I am in agreement – should in actual fact be held prior to the purchase of buildings. Moreover, strictly speaking, Parliament cannot discuss this for another two years, during the 2006 discharge, which does not strike me as the right way of going about things.
I also have a comment with regard to content about this purchase, namely about the possible presence of asbestos. The environmental aspects in this connection have not been adequately addressed. Whilst I should once again like to congratulate Mr Ferber, we cannot agree to the purchase of the building at this moment in time on account of the issues I have mentioned."@en1
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