7 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2010/2157(INI)
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages the Member States to adapt welfare and healthcare benefits in line with needs and provide funding to ensure the availability of care at home and universal healthcare for elderly people, irrespective of their income, age and social status, so as to prevent depopulation of rural areas and peripheral regions;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that public investments in the health and care systems are important for social cohesion in Europe; considers that the proportion of expenditure on health and the quality of health services in the new Member States must be brought up to the general level in the EU; calls on the Member States to ensure good healthcare provision in rural areas also, for example through gateway clinics, and to use structural funds to promote additional measures in the field of telemedicine;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Warns of the danger of a lack of skilled workers in care-related professions; believes that the regions should use ESF funds to train care workers in order to ensure that a high quality of care is guaranteed and that new jobs are created, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the regions and municipalities to create the conditions for achievement of a work/family/private life balance and, for example, to provide universally available, reliable and free all-day childcare facilities for children of all ages to prevent depopulation and a fall in the birth rate;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Recognises that in view of the ongoing crisis it is essential to ensure that pension systems remain reliable and sustainable; calls on the Member States to make efforts to ensure that state pensions (first pillar), which in most countries are the most important source of income for elderly people, stay above the poverty threshold;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on the Member States to take action against discrimination on grounds of age, to ensure that older people who wish to remain in employment can do so and to encourage them accordingly by means of exemption from taxes and social charges and by means of flexible work contracts; does not consider raising the statutory pension age to be an appropriate solution, despite demographic trends;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that the regions should use ESF funds to combat unemployment amongst young people in order to give them the opportunity to take up a suitable profession; considers that special attention should be devoted to the start of young people’s professional lives, since a career failure at the start can have an impact on the entire future working life of a young person;