Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-28-Speech-3-243-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2013 - Section I - Parliament (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120328.22.3-243-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-28-Speech-3-244-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-06-30)3 member; Parliament's Bureau (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 member; Quaestors (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 member; JURI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PETI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the report on estimates of the European Parliament’s revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2013 presents the administrative requirements as well as the challenges that our institution has to face next year. At a time of global economic crisis, citizens also expect Parliament to show greater budgetary responsibility and restraint. I am pleased that my colleagues from the Committee on Budgets supported most of the amendments that I tabled in respect of reducing unnecessary expenditure, which amounts to hundreds of millions of euros per year, and relating to the Parliament’s three places of work. Our institution should have a single headquarters where Members of the European Parliament and officials congregate. For this reason we are calling on the Council to take heed of our demands and a whole series of petitions by citizens to stop these incomprehensible and highly expensive journeys by MEPs and officials between the Parliament’s three places of work and proposing appropriate Treaty amendments. Travel costs alone for officials located in Luxembourg and travelling between the three places of work came to nearly EUR 30 million this year. Add to this further unnecessary expenditure associated, for example, with the planned construction in Luxemburg of a gigantic KAD office block for 6 000 officials, the cost of which is so difficult to estimate that no construction company wanted to do it and Parliament itself plans to act as the developer. If we are to speak seriously about savings, this is the best time to do it, to withdraw from this Byzantine project and transfer officials to the place where MEPs work, which would be logical and comprehensible to our citizens, whom we are always exhorting to tighten their belts. Finally, I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to Derek Vaughan for an excellent job."@en1
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