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
The social sector will focus on the well-being of pensioners by opposing the freezing of pensions and supporting indexation (with a projected growth of 5.4%). It is also crucial to ensure salary increases for public sector employees (teachers, rescue workers, police officers, cultural workers), which will be financed through budget cuts.
2025-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
Socially, the focus is placed on raising the salaries of public sector employees (teachers, rescuers, police officers, cultural workers, and prison officials). Furthermore, emphasis is placed on increasing the subsistence benefit by 4 million euros to support people who are struggling.
2025-09-24
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, plenary sitting.
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2025-09-18
15th Estonian Parliament, 6th sitting, plenary session.
The social focus is restricted solely to the goal of increasing general human well-being, which is closely tied to economic growth. Specific social policy issues are absent.
2025-09-09
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session.
Among the social topics addressed is the role of women in national defense, emphasizing the contribution of the Women’s Voluntary Defence Organization (Naiskodukaitse) and its cooperation with the Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit). This highlights the importance of volunteerism and civil society in ensuring security.
2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
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2025-06-19
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
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2025-06-03
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fifth session, plenary session
The social focus is placed on ensuring the quality and viability of rural life. Road development is viewed as a social issue that guarantees freedom of movement for people and allows rural areas to function.
2025-05-21
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
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2025-04-23
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Among the social issues, the focus is on gender equality, discrimination against women, and their recognition and empowerment. The speaker emphasizes women's vulnerability in the context of intimate partner violence and single parenthood, and strongly advocates for measures aimed at safeguarding women.
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
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2024-10-16
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The primary social issue revolves around the livelihood of pensioners living alone and the amount of state aid directed towards them. The focus is specifically on the financial robustness of the social safety net.
2024-10-14
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary sitting
The main social focus is directed at family policy and providing economic support to families with children. Particularly important is safeguarding the system of child benefits and parental allowance, as well as expanding opportunities for parents to earn income.
2024-09-26
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
In the social sector, the focus is on shielding socially vulnerable groups from budget cuts, ensuring that pensions and support payments for children and adults with severe or profound disabilities increase. Families will be impacted by changes to the parental benefit system, which removes the restriction on working while receiving benefits, although the benefit ceiling will drop from three average salaries to two.
2024-09-18
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th sitting, plenary session
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2024-09-17
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
In the social sector, the well-being and safety of children and youth are the top priority, emphasizing the need to address school bullying and the activities of youth gangs. Ensuring both mental and physical security is crucial. The speaker stresses the necessity of improving the accessibility of support services for children with developmental difficulties.
2024-07-29
The 15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu.
In the social welfare sector, the central theme is the equal treatment and improvement of the well-being of people with disabilities. There is strong support for raising disability benefits (especially for working-age people and those with profound disabilities), as well as reducing the co-payment for assistive devices and improving their accessibility.
2024-06-06
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The social focus is on resolving the discrepancy between the Work Capacity Support Act and the Constitution regarding the rights of social insurance and benefit recipients. Specific emphasis is placed on the situation of individuals who have received final severance payments in the context of the Work Capacity Support allowance.
2024-06-04
15th Riigikogu, third session, plenary sitting
The primary social issue is the welfare of pensioners and protecting their incomes, stressing the crucial importance of pension increases. Furthermore, the speaker highlighted the topic of national defense and security, conveying the pensioners' desire that war should not come to Estonia and that the country be kept safe and protected for their children.
2024-05-29
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
The main social focus is on child protection and substitute care, emphasizing the need to improve support services and the working conditions for specialists. The supervision of child protection workers and the possibility of recusing oneself from a case were addressed. Also discussed was the provision of psychological counseling for foster families and children.
2024-05-27
Fifteenth Riigikogu, third session, plenary session
The social sphere is a central focus, stressing robust support for families with children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Particular emphasis is placed on guaranteeing mental health and overall well-being within the social sector, as well as the need to ease the hardships faced by single pensioners through addressing the pension disparity. Deficiencies in service development, relative to direct financial aid, are also brought to the fore.
2024-04-10
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
The social focus is directed towards supporting the sick and caregivers, extending care benefits and creating flexibility for employees who are long-term ill. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of providing additional protection for individuals with health issues, citing the requirements of the European Social Charter regarding the termination of employment.
2024-03-13
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting.
The core social issue is the birth rate and support for families with children. He/She emphasizes that the low birth rate is linked to a lack of security and the absence of a suitable partner, rather than just financial incentives. He/She supports improving the accessibility of services and treatment funding for children with special needs and children suffering from rare diseases.
2024-03-06
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
In social matters, emphasis is placed on improving health and social security, especially extending long-term care benefits to parents regardless of the diagnosis. Finding holistic solutions when reforming occupational health is also vital, aiming to improve patient services and information exchange among doctors.
2024-03-05
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The primary social theme revolves around children's health and educational arrangements, highlighting issues such as reduced sleep duration and skipping breakfast. The speaker advocates for structural measures (such as changing the school start time) to improve children's daily well-being, in response to parental concerns.
2024-02-20
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
The primary social issue is ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals, in this specific case, Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. The focus is placed on humanitarian aid mechanisms and state support for the organizations carrying out this work.