Session Profile: Tanel Kiik
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
2024-02-21
Political Position
The speaker strongly advocates for expanding social guarantees for cultural workers and creative professionals, stressing the crucial need to ensure creative compensation is paid to secure health and pension insurance. They express clear support for universal health coverage as a human right and criticize the current unjust system where individuals earning the same income receive varying levels of state support. Regarding Russia, the speaker adopts a cautious yet understanding position concerning the termination of existing agreements, recognizing their practical utility.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Topic Expertise
The subject demonstrates profound knowledge regarding the financing of the cultural sector and the social security provisions for creative professionals. They support the payment of fair compensation for creative work and stress the critical importance of social guarantees. Furthermore, they highlight the necessity for a wider indexing of support payments and the implementation of universal health insurance.
Rhetorical Style
The speaking style is measured and argumentative, drawing upon both personal convictions and practical experience. The speaker uses the example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate systemic deficiencies, appealing simultaneously to both a sense of justice and pragmatism. The overall tone is constructive and forward-looking, expressing hope for achieving political consensus, and utilizing personal references ("being a young person") to enhance emotional resonance.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Activity Patterns
He spoke four times on the topics of cultural policy and healthcare. He supported the amendments to the Cultural Endowment and the Health Services Organization Act, emphasizing the importance of continuity in healthcare policy.
Opposition Stance
There is no direct confrontation expressed with specific political forces. Instead, it criticizes systemic shortcomings and the slow action taken by previous governments in the area of social guarantees. Regarding Russia, it expresses skepticism about the country's trustworthiness, but does not adopt aggressive rhetoric, focusing instead on practical risk analysis.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Collaboration Style
Proposed constructive cooperation on cultural policy matters, stressing the necessity of social guarantees. They also called for the establishment of universal health insurance.
Regional Focus
There is not enough data.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Economic Views
Supports progressive social policy, emphasizing the need to expand social guarantees for various forms of employment. It advocates for reforming the tax system to ensure fairer treatment for people with different sources of income, including the concept of a rolling social tax. It stresses the state's role in protecting citizens from economic risks and highlights the economic viability of universal health insurance.
3 Speeches Analyzed
Social Issues
Supported the improvement of social guarantees for workers in the cultural sector and called for the establishment of universal health insurance. It emphasized the need to ensure equal opportunities for healthcare services for everyone.
Legislative Focus
Supports amendments to the Cultural Endowment Act and the payment of creative worker remuneration. Stresses the need for broader indexation of grants and the introduction of universal health insurance. Shows interest in improving the social guarantees for cultural workers.