On Tuesday, March 25, the committees of the House of Representatives will receive several petitions, as in every meeting week. Citizens and organizations wishing to express their views come to the building of the House of Representatives to do this in the form of a petition presentation. This time, the MPs will receive seven petitions.
The petition presentation takes place between 1:15 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. The citizens and organizations present the petitions to various committees. MPs from these committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, March 25
- 1:15 PM: petition Help us make the Heart for Youth and Family beat on behalf of ActiZ to the committee for Health, Welfare, and Sport;
- 1:15 PM: petition Vision on hunting behavior of the stray cat on behalf of Stichting DierenLot, Katten Kenniscentrum Nederland, and Stichting Zwerfkatten Nederland to the committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Nature;
- 1:30 PM: petition Equal opportunities for every child on behalf of Jongeren INCorporated (JINC) to the committee for Education, Culture, and Science;
- 1:30 PM: petition on the issues surrounding the debt industry on behalf of Humanitas to the committee for Social Affairs and Employment;
- 1:45 PM: petition on revaluation of vocational education and the need for more equal opportunities in primary education on behalf of the Municipality of Utrecht and other organizations to the committee for Education, Culture, and Science;
- 1:45 PM: petition on growing up smartphone-free on behalf of the parent initiative Bergeijk to the committee for Digital Affairs;
- 1:45 PM: petition on the unrest in Goma-Congo on behalf of the foundation We Are Congolese to the committee for Foreign Affairs.
What is a petition?
A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition may, for example, be about government plans that the submitters disagree with, or about a topic they believe is receiving too little attention in the House.
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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 the House works.