Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-05-18-Speech-2-883"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-05-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Standards of quality and safety of human organs intended for transplantation - Action plan on organ donation and transplantation (2009-2015) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100518.31.2-883"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-05-18-Speech-2-3882
lpv:speaker	lp:Jim Higgins2
lpv:spoken text	"I welcome the new legislation to regulate quality and safety standards of organ donation in the EU. In particular, the introduction of practical measures to help ensure that live saving organs are not wasted, such as the creation of a pan European organ database. The new law will save many lives and optimise the organs donated by allowing Member States to share organs. Before this legislation, if there was no suitable recipient in a particular Member State, the organ went unused. Now, the organ can be given to one of the 56 000 EU citizens awaiting transplants. This regulation constitutes an important framework which needs to be developed upon by the respective Member States. With reference to Ireland, we need an independent body to monitor the transplantation and harvesting of donated organs. At present, Ireland and Malta are the only two countries in EU without a national transplant authority to maximise organ usage. In order to eliminate transplant patient waiting lists, one of the primary aims of the resolution, we need to raise the profile of organ donation among EU citizens – in Ireland, this could be done by the introduction of a government supported awareness programme."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2009-07-15--2012-01-16)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Japan (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2012-09-12)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2012-09-12)3 member; Parliament's Bureau (2009-07-15--2012-01-16)3 member; TRAN (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Quaestors (2009-07-15--2012-01-16)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2010-02-25--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Jim Higgins (PPE ),"1 "in writing."1

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