The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, April 8, as they do every meeting week. Citizens and organizations who want to make their voices heard come to the building of the House of Representatives to do so in the form of a petition presentation. This time, the MPs will receive five 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. Members of Parliament from those committees come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.
Petitions on Tuesday, April 8
- 1:15 PM: petition Our Patience is Up on behalf of Ieder(in) to the Committee on Health, Welfare and Sport;
- 1:30 PM: petition about rules for dealing with plastics on behalf of Platform Green Chemistry New Economy (GCNE) to the Committee on Infrastructure and Water Management;
- 1:30 PM: petition about issues surrounding student transport on behalf of National Action Committee for Students (LAKS) to the Committee on Education, Culture and Science;
- 1:45 PM: petition Stop the Cuts and Wage Dictate - Choose a Strong National Sector! on behalf of FNV to the Committee on Home Affairs;
- 1:45 PM: petition about Housing Hotline Report 2024 on behalf of National Student Union (LSVb) to the Committee on Housing and Spatial Planning.
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 about a topic that they believe receives 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.