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Bill: Infrastructure Deregulation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Grand National Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 3507
Description[?]:
| Mr Speaker, we propose to clear the infrastructure sector from remaining unnecessary government interference. Firstly, the continued subsidization of transportation is unneeded, we should let the market forces and competition do their work and drive prices down. Secondly, we should remove government regulations on private post offices, as we have done in other sectors. Thirdly, we should introduce private-public partnerships to the firefighting service to make use of the benefits of lower costs and higher efficiency. Eric Pickering MP Member for Loren RFR Infrastructure Spokesman |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Firefighting services.
Old value:: The fire department is entirely volunteer, equipment and expenses paid for by the government.
Current: There is a national fire department, funded by the government.
Proposed: The government competitively subcontracts firefighting services.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are regulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are unregulated.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Proposed: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:57:48, June 27, 2013 CET | From | Hacia Casa | To | Debating the Infrastructure Deregulation |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, if this Bill passes, Dranish citizens in remote areas will lose access to postal services, making them dangerously isolated. Also, millions of citizens will be unable to afford to travel to work, do their shopping and visit their friends. And Dranish citizens will choke and burn to death whilst the fire service puts private profit ahead of public safety. Leticia Saldanas MP Minority Leader |
| Date | 13:46:43, June 28, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Infrastructure Deregulation |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the desire for profit is a much more effective motivation to provide excellent service than some vague, government-decreed "general good". A leftist, blinded by his utopian fanatism, might not be able to recognize that, but that doesn't affect the validity of that fact. Secondly, I am sure people in remote areas will be able to set up own facilities to maintain mail deliverance - people are perfectly capable of solving their own problem without the goverment nannying them at every step. As for people not being able to visit their friends etc., we do not see this problem at all. Thanks to our recent deregulations, the costs of living will fall in all areas and people will actually have more money to spend on things like those the Minority Leader is worrying about. Eric Pickering MP Member for Loren RFR Infrastructure Spokesman |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 216 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 156 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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