Debate on The Vaccination (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15947

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Klara Kreist (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The Bill gives the towns a duty and an officer to carry it out. The Ministry of the Interior has the forms ready. The printed Bill says it better than I can: Every town above 5000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Vaccination (Amendment) Act, is not otherwise touched. I commend the Bill to the House.

Sigmund Wachs (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, Norrfeld has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. The material provision is this: Every town above 5000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. I ask the House to note it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I oppose the third reading. [Interruption.]

Helga Brenn (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The members for The Ostrand have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. The material provision is this: Every town above 5000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. I ask the House to note it. We shall divide the House. [Interruption.]

Susanne Ostmann (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Speaker, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. In The Capital District, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The clause is short and I shall not read it. We shall divide the House. [Interruption.]

Ursula Brenn (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. My constituents in The Sudmark wrote to me about the Bill, all 8 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I shall vote against the Bill.

Jonas Kreil (The Capital District; The Workers' Front): Speaker, The people of The Capital District will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. There is not a word in the Bill about wages. There never is. I put the word in now, so that it is in the record. The material provision is this: Every town above 5000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. I ask the House to note it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. We shall divide the House. [Interruption.]

Peter Voss (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. The people of Norrfeld will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

The tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The House adjourned when the court resumed after the midday adjournment.