By Plenary Sessions: Õnne Pillak
Total Sessions: 29
Fully Profiled: 29
2025-10-09
15th Riigikogu, 6th Session, Plenary Sitting
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2025-10-08
The 15th Riigikogu, 6th Session, Plenary Sitting
Economic policies favor creating conditions that promote economic growth by lowering the tax burden (abolishing the tax hump/kink, avoiding an income tax increase). The state’s task is to create favorable conditions for incomes to grow. Strict budgetary discipline and cost cutting in the public sector are supported (1.4 billion euros in total) in order to put the state’s finances back on track and fund wage increases.
2025-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
Supports economic growth-promoting policies, which include reducing the tax burden by 1.4% and abolishing the tax hump. The budget deficit is acceptable due to the sharp increase in national defense spending, but simultaneously, cuts are required in public sector labor and operating costs (by an additional 3% and 2%).
2025-09-24
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, plenary sitting.
Economic views strongly support large infrastructure projects that generate significant tax revenue (661 million euros) for the state treasury and create jobs. They recognize significant added value in Rail Baltic and advocate for prudent cash flow management from the state's perspective during land acquisition, thereby avoiding premature acquisition.
2025-09-18
15th Estonian Parliament, 6th sitting, plenary session.
The speaker advocates for active state intervention to stimulate the economy and accelerate growth. Economic growth is viewed as a direct means of increasing people's welfare.
2025-09-09
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session.
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2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
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2025-06-19
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The economic stance is strongly pro-business and favors reducing regulations, emphasizing the cancellation of bureaucratic requirements that impede entrepreneurship. They support postponing the sustainability report and making it voluntary in order to lessen the burden on businesses.
2025-06-03
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fifth session, plenary session
The economic outlook is tied to supporting entrepreneurship, stressing that a robust road network guarantees freedom of enterprise. This indicates support for public investments in infrastructure to stimulate economic activity, particularly in rural areas.
2025-05-21
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
Economic views are strongly pro-business, emphasizing the need to reduce bureaucracy and improve the economic environment. The speaker supports abolishing mandatory sustainability reporting and defends the government's actions in stimulating the economy, citing specific decisions that have been been made. The goal is to make a "reasonable decision" from the perspective of entrepreneurs.
2025-04-23
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
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2025-03-27
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
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2025-03-26
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
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2025-02-12
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Economic views are heavily focused on growth and exports, stressing the extremely vital role of the export market in generating wealth. Support is given to clean energy production as a prerequisite for attracting new investments and preventing the economy from hitting a growth ceiling. Market-based solutions are supported, with the emphasis being that lower electricity prices will only result from competition, not from a tender involving a single bidder.
2024-10-16
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
Economic views concern social expenditures and benefit levels, highlighting the rise in support for pensioners living alone. The focus is placed on social distribution and the size of state aid to demonstrate a positive fiscal commitment.
2024-10-14
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary sitting
Economic perspectives stress the necessity of protecting social support mechanisms (such as child and family benefits) during periods of budget cuts. Furthermore, there is support for labor flexibility, specifically by allowing parents to earn a higher income while simultaneously receiving parental benefits. This indicates a commitment to fostering economic activity within the scope of social protection.
2024-09-26
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
Economic perspectives emphasize competitiveness, long-term economic growth, and sound public finances, which are prerequisites for sustainable welfare growth. Large investments (160 million euros) are supported for export-oriented high-tech production in order to create well-paid jobs. Budgetary policy prioritizes cost savings (10% across ministries) and eliminating the persistent budget deficit.
2024-09-18
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th sitting, plenary session
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2024-09-17
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
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2024-07-29
The 15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu.
Economic perspectives support the introduction of a new tax (the motor vehicle tax), while simultaneously acknowledging the country's poor economic and financial standing. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of making choices due to limited financial resources and on the targeted allocation of support to vulnerable groups.
2024-06-06
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd sitting, plenary session
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2024-06-04
15th Riigikogu, third session, plenary sitting
The economic views strongly favor fiscal discipline, stressing the necessity of ending spending that exceeds revenue and getting public finances in order. They support boosting economic growth and consider current difficult budgetary decisions (such as freezing the income tax-free minimum) unavoidable for ensuring future stability.
2024-05-29
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
Economic perspectives center on the sustainability of social services funding and the reliance on European Union funds. There is an emphasis on the need to compensate for the decrease in EU funding using state budgetary resources, specifically by allocating 1.2 million euros toward family-based alternative care. Support is also given to utilizing the state budget for the preparation of materials, training initiatives, and IT solutions.
2024-05-27
Fifteenth Riigikogu, third session, plenary session
It supports targeted social spending but stresses the necessity of taking into account the state's financial capacity and the limit of taxpayer tolerance (referencing the recent changes to family benefits). It is noted that Estonia ranks among the top OECD countries when it comes to financially supporting families. The need to develop a package of support measures to help people with disabilities adapt to the tax changes is also mentioned.
2024-04-10
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
Economic viewpoints support reducing the social burden (specifically, lowering patient co-payments for medicines) and promoting voluntary employer contributions through social tax benefits. At the same time, emphasis is placed on the necessity of protecting employees (such as mandatory notice periods upon termination of employment) and accounting for state resources, leading to the rejection of proposals that would significantly expand the target group and increase resource expenditure.
2024-03-13
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting.
Economic perspectives support targeted social spending that improves the actual income of families (e.g., sickness benefit based on actual wages). He/She emphasizes the need to take into account the cost of the measures and their coverage from the state budget, thereby supporting a responsible fiscal policy.
2024-03-06
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
Economic perspectives support retaining the workforce during health issues via a partial compensation scheme, balancing the preservation of income with the need for medical treatment. Employer costs associated with remote work are acknowledged, and the role of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (Töötukassa) in covering workplace adaptation expenses is highlighted. It is noted that the initial funding for these measures comes from the European Union structural funds.
2024-03-05
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd sitting, plenary session
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2024-02-20
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
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