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"Mr President, road transport is extremely important across Europe. Commissioner, when you see the investment, you are probably looking at TEN-T funding and establishing the trans-European networks and transport corridors. This is a signal of just how important road transport is in terms of getting business done, taking advantage of the single European market, and ensuring that goods from outermost regions – like my own country of Ireland – can get to the markets they want to access. There have been many contributions here tonight which will show you that there is dissatisfaction with the proposal: it is vague and it is not specific. That is really what the Members in my own Group, and others I have heard here tonight, want from you.
Everybody wants to have greater harmonisation of standards. I think that is essential when we are talking about improving road safety: safety of passengers and of individuals. We want to improve the professional standing of transport and prevent unscrupulous firms from exploiting workers. We want to protect workers and their conditions. I think that everybody is united on that, but it is how we go about it that is the problem. I do not think there is too much of a distance between the Parliament here and you, Madam Commissioner.
With a little more time spent on this, the views of the Members can certainly be addressed. With road safety, the human factor is very much part of it. You cannot eliminate that, but you can always try to prevent it and create situations whereby the human factor can be eliminated. Hopefully the success you have had in road safety, where you have been trying to get to a position where we share information across Member States as regards driving offences, can be repeated in this area. I would hope that the Commissioner will be able to come forward at a later stage, should this be rejected, with proposals which are more specific, and not vague such as those we have had today."@en1
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