By Months: Mart Maastik
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
13 Speeches
The regional focus is clearly on rural areas, emphasizing that a car is an essential means of transport there for taking children to school and ensuring they receive an education. The speaker points out that financial issues are most severe specifically in rural areas, which is why the car tax will hit them the hardest.
09.2025
17 Speeches
The focus is primarily national (Estonian security, tax policy) and international, emphasizing the need for a common strategy among the Baltic states regarding Rail Baltic and European Union decisions. The situation on the eastern border and the detection of drones by Estonian farmers are also mentioned.
06.2025
28 Speeches
The focus is on national policies and their economic impact. Specific regional topics covered include Tallinn (regulation of light personal mobility devices, kindergarten fees) and Saaremaa (the Elwind project and challenging the necessity of the 330 kV power line). He also uses international examples (England, Sweden, Spain) to illustrate his positions.
05.2025
35 Speeches
A strong regional focus on Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, addressing the issues with ferry traffic (queues, price hikes) and the concern about life dying out on the islands. It mentions local topics such as sheep farming in Saaremaa and the potential demise of the Hiiumaa Vocational School due to a regulation issued by the Minister of Education. It emphasizes the needs of the island residents concerning transport and education.
04.2025
42 Speeches
A strong regional focus is being placed on Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, particularly concerning the development of the electricity grid and the planning of offshore wind farms. It is emphasized that, since the individual lives on Saaremaa, this issue directly affects them. Concern is also being raised about the risk of damaging Saaremaa’s natural environment due to the construction of extremely costly high-voltage power lines.
03.2025
16 Speeches
The focus is primarily on major national projects (Nordica, Estonian Air, Eesti Energia foreign investments) and energy infrastructure. Regionally, Saaremaa is mentioned in connection with the construction of offshore wind farms and the Estonia–Latvia high-voltage line, with criticism leveled against its high cost and necessity.
02.2025
25 Speeches
The speaker focuses specifically on regional energy infrastructure projects, particularly the electricity grid connections for Saaremaa and Hiiumaa and the construction of offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Riga. He/She uses local examples (the Saaremaa Municipal Council's decision regarding the education agreement) and criticizes the regional costs.
01.2025
18 Speeches
It focuses on national issues but highlights specific regional concerns, particularly the negative impact of the offshore wind farm planned near Saaremaa on coastal residents (infrasound and noise). It also mentions Russian-language schools in Narva in the context of history teaching, emphasizing the threats to teachers' freedom of choice.
12.2024
35 Speeches
There is a strong regional focus on Saaremaa and its coastal areas, highlighting the negative impacts that the offshore wind farm project will have on local residents and the environment. It also mentions the 140 km electricity infrastructure planned for Saaremaa and the special planning process underway for high-voltage lines in Harjumaa. The text criticizes the government's plan to create four regional special representatives (dubbed "sowing commissioners") as an unreasonable waste of resources.
11.2024
43 Speeches
A very strong regional focus on the West Estonian islands (Hiiumaa and Saaremaa). It highlights the danger of the Hiiumaa Vocational School declining and the reduction of specialist medical care at Kuressaare Hospital. It emphasizes that government policy (tax hikes, increased ferry ticket prices, school closures) is killing life in rural areas and transforming Saaremaa from a tourism destination into an industrial park.
10.2024
23 Speeches
The speaker focuses heavily on the Saaremaa region, using their own place of residence as a prime example of the detrimental effect of government policy. They emphasize the crucial importance of the ferry link, calling it the islands' "road extension," and criticize the hike in ticket prices, which is damaging local tourism and residents' lives. They propose that the ferry operator's profits should be shared with the local municipalities.
09.2024
8 Speeches
A strong regional focus is placed on Saaremaa and Muhumaa, emphasizing the interests of local residents (80,000 property owners) and nature in connection with the construction of offshore wind farms and high-voltage power lines. He/She notes that the public interest in Saaremaa is the preservation of nature and the avoidance of mistakes. Additionally, he/she raised the border issue concerning the Saatse Boot, referencing the Treaty of Tartu.
07.2024
5 Speeches
A strong regional focus is placed on the ability of rural residents to cope, emphasizing that the car tax will make life impossible for people living in the countryside. Examples are provided from personal life in rural areas, where a car is essential due to the lack of public transportation. Saaremaa is also mentioned in connection with the ironic metaphor of the "sheep state."
06.2024
28 Speeches
A strong focus was placed on the issues facing rural areas and local municipalities, stressing that the car tax and land tax will hit rural residents—those without access to public transportation—the hardest. Examples from Saaremaa were cited (the Land Rover Defender, the condition of the roads, hemp growers), and it was emphasized that large vehicles are needed in rural areas as essential utility items, not as luxuries.
05.2024
24 Speeches
A strong regional focus is currently placed on Saaremaa and Muhumaa, particularly regarding the planning of the offshore wind farm and the proposed route for the new Estonia-Latvia electricity grid. The negative impact of these projects on local residents, property owners (80,000 properties), and coastal community associations is being stressed. Furthermore, problems encountered by Saaremaa land surveying offices due to a malfunction at the Land Board (Maa-amet) are also being highlighted.
04.2024
30 Speeches
The focus is primarily on national and international topics (demographics, energy security, and business related to Russia). Regional attention is limited to the mention of the Narva Power Plants and industrial projects in Ida-Virumaa, which are connected to broader national energy and economic strategies.
03.2024
14 Speeches
The speaker's focus is primarily on national issues (defense expenditures, education, demographics, the prosecutor's office) and pan-European topics (Euribor, the EU biofuel saga). There are no references to specific local or regional issues.
02.2024
28 Speeches
A very strong regional focus is placed on Saaremaa and remote areas, using these regions as prime examples of the negative effects of tax hikes. It is stressed that the proposed car tax will make doing business especially difficult in peripheral regions, and that rural residents rely on cars to take their children to school due to the lack of adequate public transportation. Concerns are also raised regarding the preservation of revenue streams for municipalities in these remote areas.
01.2024
12 Speeches
The speaker is heavily focused on regional issues, specifically addressing the reliability of electricity supply and the poor condition of the networks in Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. He brings up personal experience (power outages at home) and references the local political environment (the Saaremaa Municipal Council). Furthermore, he proposes participating in nuclear energy production in Finland as an alternative way to avoid security risks and waste storage in Estonia.