Translation of "Priorité de membre du personnel d'un ministre " (French → English) :

I would ask you generally, Mr. Dingwall, has it been your experience that bureaucrats meeting with members of a minister's staff could leave those meetings and indicate that the directives he is giving to subordinates are the wishes of the minister, the desires of the minister, the instructions of the minister, or giving the impressions that they are receiving personal instructions from ministers?

7. Underlines that the best way of combating the ‘brain drain’ in the health sector is to provide career incentives for key health workers to stay in their home country; calls on the Commission, Member States and the governments of developing countries to prioritise funding for health workers’ salaries and to invest in training of key health workers;

7. Underlines, nevertheless, that the best way of combating the ‘brain drain’ in the health sector is to provide career incentives for key health workers to stay in their home country; calls on the Commission, Member States and the governments of developing countries to prioritise funding for health workers’ salaries and to invest in training of key health workers;

In order that honesty and impartiality may be beyond doubt, members of ministers' staffs, equally with ministers, must not place themselves in a position where they are under obligation to any person who might profit from special consideration or favour on their party, or seek in any way to gain from special treatment from them; equally, a staff member, like a minister, must not have a pecuniary interest that could even remotely c ...[+++]onflict with the discharge of his public duty.

10. Notes the application of the activity-based budget system to the internal management of the Commission, which it welcomes; underlines the aim of ABB to promote and clarify personal responsibility among staff, and the need to increase flexibility in redeployment of staff; considers that this system permits the budgetary authority to make a link between the implementation record of the various spending programmes and their allocation of resources; expects the activity-based budget system to result in increased openness and a simplification of the budgetary procedure; rejects any attempt by the Commission to undermine the institutio ...[+++]nal powers of the budgetary authority and particularly to use ABB as a pretext for refusing resources needed for the implementation of priorities and initiatives chosen by Parliament;

If a minister is a member of Parliament, a member of the minister's staff is on the staff of a member of Parliament.