By Months: Rene Kokk
Total Months: 9
Fully Profiled: 9
11.2025
19 Speeches
The speaker highlights a specific regional impact, asking the Minister for feedback gathered from public meetings held with residents of Tartu and Tartu municipality concerning the prison project. He/She emphasizes the necessity of analyzing the project's impact, including the psychological effect on local residents.
10.2025
15 Speeches
There is insufficient data. The focus is entirely on national fiscal policy and the management of ministry budgets.
09.2025
9 Speeches
The focus is clearly on rural areas and their residents, emphasizing the decreasing availability of services (such as birth registration and the lack of cash payment options at the PPA). He/She points out that the consolidation of services shifts the costs onto the people. Additionally, he/she defends the interests of landowners affected by the construction of Rail Baltic.
06.2025
10 Speeches
The focus is primarily national (logistics, national defense). The only specific regional emphasis is on the security of Southern Estonia, where they demand the addition of police officers instead of transferring prisoners.
05.2025
55 Speeches
A strong regional focus, highlighting the concerns of residents in rural areas and smaller settlements, where fuel costs are higher. It criticizes the social welfare reform that shifted responsibility to local governments (LOVs) without sufficient funding, and the closure of schools (citing the Vana-Vigala example), linking this directly to the decline of the village. The impact of border trade with Latvia and Lithuania is also mentioned.
04.2025
44 Speeches
A strong regional focus is placed on rural areas and sparsely populated regions, emphasizing that the car tax will hit rural residents particularly hard, as the car is an essential means of transport for them. There is criticism of officials' detached understanding of transport accessibility between Tallinn and smaller settlements. The exemplary action of the Rapla council in terminating the special planning for the wind farm is also mentioned.
03.2025
17 Speeches
The focus is primarily on national issues (tax policy, national defense, fish stocks). The regional aspect becomes apparent in the matter of local government financing, where there is mention of the state withdrawing funds and a reference to the city of Tartu's lawsuit against the state.
02.2025
26 Speeches
It focuses primarily on national issues (tax policy, the constitution). The regional focus is evident in the protection of the interests of rural life and rural entrepreneurs (such as sheep farmers and beekeepers) against damage caused by large predators, emphasizing the assurance of security.
01.2025
18 Speeches
The focus is primarily on national and economic issues, but there is an emphasis on supporting the domestic food industry and farmers via a reduction in VAT. The role of local municipalities (LM) in planning new energy developments (direct lines) is also mentioned, which could potentially create new business zones.