Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-01-15-Speech-2-152"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-01-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20080115.23.2-152"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bairbre de Brún2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I welcome Mr Cashman’s report on the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. The members of Committee on Civil Liberties have done sterling work on this important subject. I congratulate them as well as the rapporteur. But I particularly welcome the improvements whereby discrimination as regards traditional languages and minorities is to be encompassed within the Agency’s specific responsibilities. I call on Members to back these reforms tomorrow. The United Nations has declared this year, 2008, International Year of Languages. The European Union has to participate in this venture, and we too must follow suit. I personally have a special interest in this matter. I am continuing to work at EU level, to demand the resources necessary for Irish as an EU working language, and at constituency level, to support the campaign for an Irish Language Act, a piece of legislation sorely needed in Northern Ireland to protect the rights of Irish-speakers. Those rights cannot be exercised at present. They will be available if they are enshrined in binding legislation and if a body such as the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights is able to challenge my compatriots and others in the matter of discrimination based on language."@en1

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