Proposition 50K1901

Projet de loi apportant diverses modifications à la législation relative aux pensions du secteur public.

General information ¶

Submitted by

Groen Open Vld Vooruit PS | SP Ecolo MR Verhofstadt Ⅰ

Submission date

June 28, 2002

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

cumulative pension entitlement teaching civil service pension scheme survivor's benefit

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Discussion ¶

Dec. 17, 2002 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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I actually have two projects. I have the number 1901/7 with three articles. This is a bill that regulates matters referred to in Article 77 of the Constitution. The other Bill No. 1901/8 contains 92 articles. There are also a number of amendments to this bill. This is a draft law that regulates a matter as referred to in Article 78 of the Constitution. This is not the first time we have this. We recently talked about the BIPT law. That was last week.

The reporter is Mr Vanvelthoven. He is not present. I suspect that he refers to his report. If a member of the Chamber invites the reporter to come and he is available, I will let him come. Mr Vanvelthoven is not in Parliament. If he is not present, I consider this to be a silent reference to the report.

Mr. Speaker, I wonder when, in this Chamber — again an adaptation and a novelty — you will present the prize for courage and self-sacrifice.

I already have candidates, Mrs D'Hondt.

Slowly, as they say in my dialect, one must have eaten of a muilezel in order to be physically present in this plenary even for certain bills and that one must already gather his courage to want to do another intervention for empty banks and empty tribunes. Nevertheless, Mr. Speaker, in anticipation of the awarding of that prize, I will yet again intervene on this draft law because I must say — and you have already said it in a way that it was understandable at least to my bank — that this draft law is indeed an important draft law.

This bill concerns public sector pensions. All those who are not here at this moment because they are probably visiting their electorate would sometimes complain because here is a very important electorate. These are all officials. Even if there were no elections, I still find that we as parliamentarians have the task and duty to do our work and thus also to do our work and to be present here in the Parliament with regard to the adjustment of the pensions of the public sector. Now, the officials will have a conscience, Mr. President.

During the discussion of this bill, we submitted three amendments. I am going to explain these amendments again because we have re-submitted two of them. Thus they will be speaking clearly.

A third amendment that we had submitted, namely amendment number 12, is actually an amendment that was adopted during the discussion by the Minister, though in a slightly modified form. For this purpose, I refer to the report of Mr Vanvelthoven, on page 28, where you can read, therefore, how the discussion on this amendment No. 12 went. Amendment No. 12 was actually intended to regulate the diploma bonification in a certain way. Now, this has thus been done in a way that was acceptable to the Minister and which, in our opinion, still held back the essence of our amendment. The slight amendment proposed by the Minister to our amendment actually avoided administrative burden. It ultimately results, and I look forward to it, in the correction of an anomaly or a piece of injustice existing in the context of the Diploma Bonification for the calculation of pensions of officials. I am pleased that we have submitted this amendment and I also thank the Minister for his willingness to go on the basis of this amendment. For the rest, Mr. Speaker, I will continue to intervene on the articles on which we submitted an amendment. I thank you.

Mrs. D'Hondt, I am not allowed to award prizes of flirt but I think you are sure and definitely a ... It deserves . I say that very quietly because you come across many times in domains that you know well and I always listen with attention to you. I can tell you. I want the Room to hear and know.

Are there any other colleagues registered at the general discussion? Mr. Minister, do you want to intervene? No to?

Then I will close this general discussion...

Mr. Speaker, in the Senate one is very impatient and one will close the session unless I say that I can come, of course.

I think you will be free here in a minute or ten.

Ten minutes to? I am there in ten minutes.

We still have to discuss the articles and Mrs D'Hondt wishes to clarify amendments. I have to have a minister here, otherwise I have to stop working.

I have to inform the Senate Committee.

I think we will have done this within a quarter of an hour. I have to have a minister to deal with the other items on the agenda.

Is it right that Mrs. Neyts will come?

I will see if I can find someone else.

Mrs. Neyts will come to replace you. If I have understood it correctly, the Senate has also heard the regulation.