Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-23-Speech-3-125-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-23"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120523.6.3-125-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-23-Speech-3-126-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Ashley Fox2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, scrutiny by this Parliament is important. Our job is not only to pass legislation – something which we do rather too much of – but also to ensure that taxpayers’ money is spent wisely, both by the Commission and by the Member States. My predecessor in the South-West of England was Neil Parish, now the Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Honiton. He was instrumental in setting up the parliamentary inquiry into the foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK in 2001. That inquiry revealed how incompetently the last Labour Government handled that crisis. This reform shows how inquiries should be undertaken. It contains some good parts but goes too far in granting powers to this Parliament. For example, it grants Parliament the power to summons individuals and the power to sanction those who refuse to attend. The Treaties do not grant us these powers and, in my view, we would be overreaching ourselves by approving this report. I do not support the provisions relating to officials of national governments. Civil servants have a duty to provide their best advice to ministers and, having done so, to carry out those ministerial decisions. This proposal risks undermining that trust and subverting ministerial accountability, which is rightly judged by national parliaments. If these proposals are to achieve anything, it should be to introduce greater accountability to the European institutions. It is here that Parliament should concentrate its efforts by bringing the bureaucrats in Brussels under democratic oversight and control."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2011-03-09--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; AFCO (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ashley Fox,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group."1
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