The committees of the House of Representatives will receive several petitions on Tuesday, February 24, as they do every parliamentary week. Citizens and organizations wishing to express their views come to the House of Representatives building to do so by submitting a petition. This time, Members of Parliament will receive four petitions.

The petition submissions take place between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations submit the petitions to various committees. Members of Parliament from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.

Petitions on Tuesday, February 24

  • 1:00 PM: petition Let practice-oriented research support your knowledge agenda by Petitie Katapult, Association of Universities of Applied Sciences and VNO-NCW to the Committee for Economic Affairs;
  • 1:15 PM: petition Protect our health: stop PFAS now! by DeGoedeZaak to the Committee for Infrastructure and Water Management;
  • 1:30 PM: petition No price on district nursing by Nurses & Carers Netherlands (V&VN) to the Committee for Health, Welfare and Sport;
  • 1:45 PM: petition on hereditary predisposition to cancer by the Hereditary Cancer Netherlands foundation to the Committee for Health, Welfare and Sport. 

What is a petition?

A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition can, for example, concern government plans that the submitters disagree with or a topic they feel receives too little attention in Parliament.

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Besides voting in elections, there are other ways for citizens to influence politics; the petition is one of them. Read more at How Parliament Works.