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The Bill on Amendments to the Early Childhood Education Act (675 SE), initiated by the Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Group and Members of the Riigikogu Jaak Aab, Ester Karuse, Tanel Kiik, Andre Hanimägi and Züleyxa Izmailova, provided for ensuring a free nursery place for every child. The Bill was intended to eliminate the obligation for parents to pay nursery fees.
Lauri Laats from the Centre Party Group, Helle-Moonika Helme from the Estonian Conservative People’s Party Group and Lauri Läänemets from the Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Group took the floor during the debate.
The lead committee moved to reject the Bill at the first reading. 39 members of the Riigikogu voted in favour of the motion and 25 voted against. The Bill was dropped from the legislative proceedings.
The Bill on Amendments to the Family Benefits Act (729 SE), initiated by the Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Group and Members of the Riigikogu Jaak Aab, Ester Karuse, Tanel Kiik, Andre Hanimägi and Züleyxa Izmailova, was intended to establish the principle that, if the interval between the birth of the child of an applicant for parental benefit and the birth of their previous child was less than three years, then, in addition to maintaining the amount of parental benefit, it would be adjusted in line with the change in the amount of the average wage for the second quarter of the year preceding the budget year, as published by Statistics Estonia. The parental benefit granted could not have been lower than the previous amount of parental benefit.
Vadim Belobrovtsev from the Centre Party Group, Martin Helme from the Estonian Conservative People’s Party Group and Reili Rand from the Social Democratic Party Parliamentary Group took the floor during the debate.
The lead committee moved to reject the Bill at the first reading. 34 members of the Riigikogu voted in favour of the motion and 24 voted against. The Bill was dropped from the legislative proceedings.
Four interpellations were replied
Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs Liisa Pakosta replied to the interpellations concerning NGO Slava Ukraini (No. 850), concerning the delay in transposing the equality directives and the need for additional resources (No. 841), concerning discussions in the European Union on restrictions on young people’s use of social media (No. 847) and concerning transparency and prevention of abuses in consumer associations (No. 855), submitted by members of the Riigikogu.
Helmen Kütt and Lauri Läänemets took the floor during the open microphone.
The sitting ended at 9.57 p.m.
Verbatim record of the sitting (in Estonian)
Video recording will be available to watch later on the Riigikogu YouTube channel.
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Link uudisele: Today’s agenda of the Riigikogu included two Bills and four interpellations
Source: Parliament of Estonia