Text tabled : A7-0263/2011

  Maria do Céu Patrão Neves (PPE), in writing. – (PT) I voted for this report on mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 because I agree with the majority of the concerns expressed by the European Parliament. It should be pointed out that financial expenditure and investment made in an attempt to establish dignified conditions for the social lives of disabled people constitute a fundamental issue of justice and human rights, as well as a long-term return investment in the wellbeing of all in a sustainable society where people can live longer and work more efficiently under better conditions. As such, I am totally opposed to unjustified cuts being made in the context of public austerity measures to services for people with disabilities, or to projects whose purpose is their social inclusion, since that would represent a failure to guarantee the basic and inalienable rights of the disabled person.