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"Mr President, indeed we are all thinking of Mr Papastamkos. Let us separate the issues, though, because Mr Schulz made some comments as to how we do our work and I want to defend the work of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI).
I would say this: we do need to look at how we do our work. The President of this Parliament has just said that many of us are voting on things we do not know we are voting on, and let us be frank – and I will say it for my office – you cannot have staff working 24/7, and that is what is happening in this House. We are under too much pressure with the volume of the reports we deal with.
Let us take Mr Schulz’s view: perhaps some of us could sit down and look at better ways of working. The amount and volume of material we are dealing with cannot be dealt with effectively, and the Agriculture Committee worked wonders to distil down over 8 000 amendments into some sort of coherent document.
This House represents democracy. We have to allow people to vote. The decision of the AGRI Committee was to allow that. If we want to change that position, we need to discuss it. Perhaps it takes a crisis such as we all feel we have gone through to change how we work. Let us seize the opportunity to at least discuss it."@en1
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