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patient transportation services driver | PTS driver | driver in patient transport services | patient transport services driver

priority seat

priority seat

long distance savings service [ long distance discount service ]

assist clients with mobility problems | help social service users cope with physical disabilities | assist social service users with physical disabilities | help social service users with physical disabilities

121. Believes that the development of e-administration is a priority for innovation, as it has a leverage effect on all sectors of the economy and enhances efficiency, interoperability and transparency, reduces costs and the administrative burden, allows for better cooperation between public administrations, and provides better, more user-friendly and personalised services for all citizens and businesses in view of the opportunities offered by digital social innovations; urges the Commission to lead by example in the field of e-gover ...[+++]nment and to develop, together with the Member States, an ambitious and comprehensive e-government action plan; believes that this action plan should be based on users’ needs and best practices, including benchmarks for progress, a step-by-step sectoral approach to apply the ‘once only principle’ in public administrations according to which citizens and businesses should not be asked for information already provided to a public authority, whilst ensuring citizens' privacy and a high level of data protection in compliance with the requirements and principles of the EU Data Protection Reform package and fully in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as a high level of security regarding these initiatives; considers that it should also ensure the full cross-border deployment of highly encrypted e-ID and e-signatures, in particular with the swift implementation of the eIDAS regulation and the increased online availability of public services; stresses the importance for citizens and businesses to have access to interconnected commercial registers;

5. Notes that, while deficits have been reduced in a number of countries, this process has also caused a fall in public investment in the Union; welcomes therefore the fostering of a European investment policy aimed at boosting growth and job creation, and calls for further efforts to ensure the financing of the real economy; takes the view that the main aims of projects receiving EFSI support should be decent job creation leading to quality employment and achieving social, economic and territorial cohesion; considers that there should be stronger measures in response to Parliament’s call to promote social investment not only in pursuit of financial profit, but also ...[+++] with the aim of promoting a positive social impact and reducing inequality by, inter alia, improving public services and supporting the creation of jobs for categories of disadvantaged people; stresses, in this regard, the need to strengthen the Commission’s regulatory tools (such as impact assessments, evaluations, etc.) and to implement forms of control and monitoring where investments are made;

The recent Mental Health Commission of Canada's pilot project, the at home/chez soi project, demonstrated that the housing first approach rapidly reduces homelessness while alleviating pressure on shelter, health, police, and judicial services.

How can the Minister of National Defence say that the health of the troops is a priority when budgets for mental health services are being cut?