Members of Parliament receive petitions on Tuesday, September 23 September 19, 2025 The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, September 23, as they do every meeting week. Citizens and organizations who wish to voice their opinions will come to the building of the House of Representatives to do so in the form of a petition presentation. This time, the Members of Parliament will receive seven petitions. The petition presentation will take place between 1:15 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations will present the petitions to various committees. Members of Parliament from those committees will come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.Petitions on Tuesday, September 231:15 PM: petition for reimbursement of the drug Voxzogo for the treatment of the growth disorder achondroplasia in children on behalf of the Parent Working Group to the Committee for Health, Welfare and Sport;1:15 PM: petition regarding the motion of no confidence against former Minister Marjolein Faber to the Committee for Asylum and Migration;1:15 PM: petition End the separation of calf and cow! by the Animal & Right Foundation to the Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature;1:30 PM: petition More research on the female body by Voices for Women to the Committee for Health, Welfare and Sport;1:30 PM: petition Without a young generation, no future for the village by the National Association for Small Communities to the Committee for Housing and Spatial Planning;1:45 PM: petition for extending parental leave to 18 years to the Committee for Social Affairs and Employment;1:45 PM: petition regarding the future of education by ISO, LSVb, JOB and LAKS to the Committee for Education, Culture and Science.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 that they believe is receiving too little attention in the House.Read moreIn addition to voting in elections, there are other ways for citizens to influence politics; the petition is one of them. Read more on How the House Works.