Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-02-08-Speech-1-044"
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"Mr President, sometimes, colleagues in this Parliament make life very difficult for its friends. The Bureau has recommended expenditure in order to employ 150 more people, in Parliament and the political groups, to cope with the requirements of the Lisbon Treaty – a massive increase in expenditure at a time when so many of our citizens are facing public service cuts and tax rises.
I have been dealing with codecision legislation for more than 10 years. I do not believe we need that many staff: I believe we can redeploy and use our staff more effectively without an increase in our budget.
All of us who run a council – or indeed a government – know that sometimes we have to live within our means. We should not be doing things for which we cannot account. The test should always be: can we stand up at a public meeting and explain what we are doing to our citizens? I believe that, in this case, we could not."@en1
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