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"A Uachtaráin, ba mhaith liom ar dtús fáilte a chur roimh mo chomhghleacaí, an tAire Brian Hayes, anseo inniu agus molaim é as ucht a dhíograis agus as an dea-obair atá déanta aige i rith na huachtaránachta.
In this regard, I found it interesting that it was stated that in regional policy there was a 6% error rate. I assume that in some regions it was far higher and in others it was lower, including – thankfully – in my own Member State.
But a 6% error rate is far too high. It was stated that these errors should have been spotted in Member States, and you asked why. Of course, one of the reasons is because it is probably easier not to – or perhaps more profitable not to. That would indicate that our sanctions and penalties are not strong enough, since if penalties were strong enough, you would have far less motivation not to notice errors.
Secondly, we have said – and I agree – that, at a time of economic recession and austerity, we need to streamline the spending and, above all, make unnecessary spending something we should not be doing in Parliament. I think therefore we have to look at a single seat. It costs us EUR 180 million a year to come to Strasbourg every year, and 19 000 tonnes of CO
emissions. We are only here for 48 days in the year, so this place lies idle for 317 days.
I can understand that, for historical reasons, perhaps it made sense to have different seats. Nowadays, though, with the way the economy has gone and demands that we show leadership, we should look again at the whole question of the seats. In particular, we should look at all the seats so that we can make each of them sensible and practical and make good savings in that way."@en1
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