report on parliamentary activities - district no. 22

Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński

 Month of January 2018

Tuesday-Wednesday, January 9-10

• Presidium of the Sejm, Senior Convention
• 55th Session of the Sejm: the report of the Committee on Public Finance on the amendments tabled to the draft budget law for 2018 is the main item on the agenda. In addition, the House began work on, among others, the government's draft law on electromobility and alternative fuels. The deputies also dealt with, among others, the government's proposal to simplify the rules for applying for subsidies by farmers and the Senate draft containing a proposal to grant additional rights related to health care and social welfare to persons deported for forced labor

Tuesday, January 9

• swearing-in of the government. President Andrzej Duda appointed new ministers to the government. Nine ministries have changed their heads. Teresa Czerwińska - finance minister, Jadwiga Emilewicz - minister of enterprise and technology, Jerzy Kwieciński - minister of investment and development, Luke Szumowski - minister of health, Henryk Kowalczyk - environment minister, Joachim Brudziński - minister of internal affairs and administration, Jacek Czputowicz - foreign minister, Mariusz Blaszczak - minister of national defense, Andrzej Adamczyk - minister of infrastructure

Tuesday, January 9

• meeting with the marshal of podkarpackie voivodship Władysław Ortyl
• New Year's meeting of the Law and Justice Club with the President of the Republic of Poland at the Presidential Palace

Wednesday, January 10

• 93rd Smolensk Monthly Meeting. The ceremony, which began with a mass celebrated at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph the Spouse, was attended by, among others, the President of the Law and Justice party Jaroslaw KaczynskiMarek Kuchciński, Speaker of the Sejm, Mariusz Blaszczak, Head of the Ministry of Defense, Beata Szydło, Deputy Prime Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, former Minister of Defense, Marek Suski, Head of the Prime Minister's Office, Jacek Sasin, Head of the Permanent Committee of the Council of Ministers

 

• meeting with the podkarpackie voivode Ms Ewa Leniart

Thursday, January 11

• Presidium of the Sejm, Senior Convention
  - 56th Session of the Sejm. During the 56th session, MPs passed the budget bill. The law raises spending on sustainable development, defense, health care, defense, education, agriculture or culture, among others. The measures also include a retirement age of 60 for women and 65 for men and the programs Family 500 Plus and Housing Plus.

Saturday, January 13

• Concelebrated Mass Presided over by Ordinary Archbishop Adam Szal
  - Scientific session dedicated to Archbishop Ignacy Tokarczuk on the 100th anniversary of his birth. - The ideologies of the 20th and 21st centuries still call us to bear witness: faith in God, respect for man, courage and fidelity to the work of our ancestors - said the Speaker of the Sejm. Archbishop Tokarczuk is counted among the greatest hierarchs of the Church, compared to Karol Wojtyla or Stefan Wyszyński.

Wednesday, January 17

• on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the death of Jadwiga Kaczyńska a mass was celebrated, in which Marek Kuchciński, Jarosław Kaczyński and Law and Justice politicians took part (photo: Adam Guz/polska press)

• Presentation of the nomination of the Deputy GIODOThe new President of the Republic of Poland is Mirosław Sanek. The Act of Appointment for this position received yesterday from the hands of the Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński

 Wednesday, January 17 

• meeting on the Central Sports Center: min. Stawiarski, COS directors (Mariusz Kałużny, Tomasz Kusiński), Min. of Finance, Cezariusz Lesisz, parliamentary representative, min. Leszek Skiba. A plan of sports investments in Podkarpackie is being prepared, the heart of which is to be the Central Sports Centre

Saturday, January 20 

• solemn Holy Mass for the intention of the Homeland at the church of St. Wojciech and St. Stanislaw in Ustrzyki Dolne
  - PiS wafers meeting in Ustrzyki Dolne. - We are trying to make the so-called sustainable development include all areas and social groups - said the Marshal. - This is also happening in the Bieszczady Mountains. Looking for a recipe how to implement the policy of development, including infrastructural development, in this part of Poland, one of the most beautiful and one of the most famous in the world, the parliamentarians have several points of reference, such as Bieszczady Highlands, Solina, Arłamow (one of the most attractive private institutions in Central Europe).

During the international meetings, also those related to Carpathian Europe, we noticed that on the map of the three Carpathian provinces (Silesian, Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian) there is no large sports center in this region. There is neither in the Low Beskids nor in the Bieszczady Mountains. We have decided that if the state budget finally allows for making investment decisions, we will encourage our authorities, our Minister of Finance, and the Prime Minister to create a state institution in Podkarpacie. - The Central Sports Centre with its seat in the municipality of Ustrzyki Dolne. This decision has already been made - said Marek Kuchciński.

Sunday, January 21

• 155th Anniversary of the January Uprising. Laying flowers at the monument to the January Uprising insurgents at the old cemetery in Rzeszow (photo from right: Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński, Marshal of Podkarpackie Voivodship Wladyslaw Ortyl, Voivod of Podkarpackie Ewa Leniart)

• New Year meeting of activists and supporters of Law and Justice in Rzeszów. Summing up the last year, the Speaker of the Sejm emphasized that the good change that is taking place in Podkarpacie is possible thanks to the involvement of local structures. Both he and Development Minister Jerzy Kwieciński assured of the support of the government of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki when it comes to the development of the region. - We are changing Poland, we are developing the Podkarpackie land - said the Marshal. He stressed that the course of the good change is still the same as in the previous two years - the good of the Republic of Poland, the community based on Christian values or the improvement of life

Monday, January 22

• duty in the MP's Office in Przemyśl
• LIST - X International Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrations in the Podkarpacie region Letter on the occasion of the MDOH

• LIST - Celebrations of the 155th Anniversary of the January Uprising Letter on the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the January Uprising

Tuesday, January 23 

• meeting with Dr. Justyna Schulz, Western Institute
• meeting with chairman. W. Hermeliński, min. Joachim Brudziński, min. Paweł Szefernaker concerned preparation of PKW and KBW for elections 

Wednesday, January 24 

• management of the Chancellery of the Sejm
• meeting with min. Jacek Czaputowicz 

Thursday, January 25 

• LIST - 50th Session of the City Council of Przemyśl Letter of the 50th Session of the Przemyśl City Council 

Wednesday-Friday, January 24-26 

• The Bureau of the Sejm
• Senior Convention

• 57th sitting of the Sejm. On Friday, the Sejm passed a package of bills concerning changes in the law
  economic: O Rzecznik Małych i Średnich Przedsiębiorców, O Centralna Ewidencja i Informacja o Działalności Gospodarczej, O zasadach uczestnictwa przedsiębiorców zagranicznych w obrocie, amendments to the law on departments of government administration, on the marshal's guard, on animal protection, on the National Court Register, The Sejm accepted information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (MSWiA) on individuals and organizations that may be suspected of promoting totalitarian systems and incitement to hatred based on national, ethnic, racial and religious differences. The Sejm adopted a law on penalties for the words "Polish death camps" and on the denial of crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists, the Sejm appointed a new judge to the Constitutional Tribunal. Professor Jarosław Wyrembak, the Sejm adopted a resolution on commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Polish Geographical Society

• Opening of the exhibition "In nomine Domini. Missionary of Africa. Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki SJ (1911-2007)". - We are hosting an extraordinary exhibition. It is important because the Legacy of the Cardinal carries a universal message - tolerance, so necessary for us today and so strongly associated with the history of the Republic of Poland. Since the Middle Ages, tolerance has been a characteristic feature of Poles - said the Speaker of the Sejm

• meeting with the slovak-polish parliamentary group. Talks focused on strategic interests, cross-border cooperation, infrastructure development and the future of the European Union

 Friday, January 26

• meeting with experts

Saturday, January 26 

• Law and Justice political council meeting. Krzysztof Sobolewski was appointed chairman of the Council, replacing Joachim Brudziński (currently Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration). It was also decided that politicians who changed their party affiliation from PiS to other parties during the last three years will not be able to run for the Law and Justice party.

 Tuesday, January 30 

• the oath of office of the newly elected judge of the Constitutional Tribunal Jarosław Wyrembak - Presidential Palace

• meeting with president K. Gintrowska, editor P. Lisicki, dr M. Szymanowski
• meeting with A. Eberhardt, dir. M. Gniazdowski Centre for Eastern Studies
• meeting with Zygmunt Berdychowski
• meeting with min. Jerzy Materna

Wednesday, January 31 

• meeting with Spanish Ambassador Francisco Javier Sanabria. They discussed the future shape of the European Union, so that it is not a Europe of regions, but a Europe of member states, the issue of maintaining cohesion policy and subsidies for farmers

• meeting with the ambassador of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Xu Jianem

Marshal Marek Kuchcinski (MMK) thanked Ambassador Xu Jian (AXJ) for his long-term mission in Poland. During this time, there have been a series of historic events in bilateral relations, which have resulted in the upgrading of bilateral contacts to a comprehensive strategic partnership