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The plans of the ruling center-right coalition include a new committee in the Seimas, the Future.
According to the President of Parliament, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, in order to establish a new commission it is necessary to amend the Statute of the Seimas.
“This package of statute amendments is being prepared more broadly and apparently the question of establishing the Committee of the Future will also be in it,” he told reporters on the Seimas on Monday.
V.Čmilytė-Nielsen said he could comment soon on the issues the Seimas Future Committee would consider.
“There will be a description of that committee and its format. But otherwise, in general, such analogous committees under one name or another exist in many Western European countries. This, I think, if there was a committee in Lithuania dealing with future issues and various innovations, it would be a great advantage for our parliament and issues that are important in the 21st century could really be on the agenda of this committee, ”explained the parliamentary. President.
That would be a great advantage for our Parliament, and those issues that are important in the 21st century could really be on the agenda of this committee.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Jurgis Razma
Seimas Jurgis Razma’s First Vice President added that Parliament’s Future Committee will consider various future strategies and prospects.
Its members could be parliamentarians who are already members of a Seimas committee, as is the case with the Seimas European Affairs Committee.
You want to assign part of the commissions
Furthermore, according to V.Čmilytė-Nielsen, it is considered that both to save resources and to assess the importance and convenience, there could be no other commission in the Seimas.
Luke April / 15 Minute Photo / Victoria Čmilytė-Nielsen
Among the parliamentary commissions that can be abolished is the Migration Commission.
As a result, the coalition partners still promise to argue.
“The goal is for Seimas to function in the most meaningful way possible and that in cases where we have commissions, they will be filled and function efficiently,” said the president of Seimas.
Sale – Mature
The ruling coalition is also considering the idea of privatizing the parliamentary hotel opposite the Seimas on Gediminas avenue.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Family hotel
“We take this idea very seriously in the coalition format. In my personal opinion, perhaps this issue is ripe and I will come back again that it is a joint decision of the coalition,” said V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.
In my personal opinion, perhaps this topic is already ripe.
According to J.Razma, the Seimas hotel selling proposition is not the first, there have been similar considerations before.
“Basically, the coalition had a positive attitude to move towards the delivery of the hotel, anticipating the payment in cash. But, of course, it is not so urgent to do it, because the proposed budget for next year is not being adjusted as often” , explained the first vice president of Seimas.
In general, there was a positive attitude in the coalition to move towards the abandonment of the hotel by providing for payment in cash.
Pay for nothing
The Statute of the Seimas stipulates that, if they wish, parliamentarians can receive accommodation in a Seimas hotel to live with family members.
Members of the Seimas who reside in it, who do not own a home in the Vilnius city municipality and who are within a radius of 25 km from its administrative boundary, do not have to pay the costs of public services.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Family hotel
Other MPs living in the Seimas hotel have to pay for hot and cold water, electricity, gas, thermal energy and utilities according to approved rates.
At the end of the last legislature of the Seimas, almost all the apartments were occupied in the parliamentary hotel: 70 out of 72.
Public services were paid for by three MPs who lived in the hotel.
During this legislature of the Seimas, several stories came to light about the fact that the offspring of some parliamentarians could use the official housing in the parliamentary hotel as their own.
Furthermore, some members of the Seimas lived in government housing despite having real estate in Vilnius.
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