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lpv:speaker	lp:Ria Oomen-ruijten2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-10-22--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we do not need to have a debate to try and persuade each other as to why maternity leave, long maternity leave and paid maternity leave are necessary. We all know that debate. What now needs to be done is to get the debate afloat again. We could do that in two ways. Either the Presidency concedes to Parliament that it has asked for far too much: ‘I will fix it at 18 weeks, I will eventually be able to introduce that, but I will leave out paternity leave’. That was actually the proposal Ms Plumb put forward in the Committee on Social Affairs at that time, a sensible proposal. That is a possibility which Member States can sound out. The second possibility is that you, with the Commission – and I do not actually see anyone from the Commission here – can withdraw the proposal. If the Commission withdraws the proposal, they can come back with a new proposal. I do wonder actually why we have not taken that course. As the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), we have said: ‘You are asking for too much, and if you ask for too much, we will fail’. That has now happened. However, there are two possibilities and I ask the Presidency to come up with a new initiative. Come up with a new proposal where you will be asking for less. Take another good look at Ms Plumb’s proposal, which was unfortunately outvoted by the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and then come back to us. I think that we really can find a solution."@en1
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