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"Mr President, ultimately every society is judged by how it treats its vulnerable and its old.
We currently have approximately 3 million people who have no fixed abode in Europe. I find that in my own Member State, the United Kingdom, hypothermia cases amongst the elderly have doubled in the last five years. Such is the extent of the problem that it was no surprise to me today when I picked up a leading newspaper in the United Kingdom and the headline was: ‘Frozen to death as fuel bills soar’.
Some may argue that this is about homeless people. Well, yes it is, but my argument is that, whilst we should have a strategy in order to deal with the homeless situation and those people affected by the severe weather who are homeless, we must, equally, have a measure in place to deal with those people who could find themselves in a situation of homelessness through not being able to afford a place to live, in view of the current pressures that they have financially.
We are finding, right across the European Union, that redundancies are rising and repossessions are rising. I have a figure of 233 homeless people dead within the last seven days. Mr Daul quotes a figure in excess of 600 over the past few weeks. This is a matter of real and great shame for all of us.
Commissioner Barnier talks about the restricted role of this House. Yes, it is right, we must firm up the role of our Member States and we must ensure that there is coordination and sharing of best practice."@en1
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