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"Madam President, I did speak in the main debate on this subject. But what I did not do was actually explain why I voted against. This was because of all sorts of reasons I explained in my vote. I would have loved to have voted in favour of this, if only the European institutions were doing something useful in sport.
Last year in the budget debate, we actually voted as a Parliament against a line of money which had been match-funded for the Special Olympic Movement for Unified Sports, a programme which would have run across 10 countries of the European Union involving 3 000 people with intellectual disability.
I am bringing this proposal back – and I have been talking to all the different rapporteurs in this place – but you do wonder actually how interested this place is in sport. Maybe it just wants to suck the power up so it can dabble in people’s everyday lives. But it does not want to actually do anything positive sometimes when it comes to people with disabilities.
I think we missed an opportunity last year. I will be pressing this again this year and I record this interest with the Special Olympics, a wonderful organisation, here today."@en1
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