By Plenary Sessions: Helir-Valdor Seeder

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The speaker emphasizes the importance of family policy and criticizes the government for cutting family benefits and increasing the state fee for registering a marriage. They consider the hike in the marriage fee to be a value-based issue, which signals the state's negative attitude toward families and generates insecurity within society.

In social policy, the speaker's priority is solving the demographic crisis and protecting vulnerable groups. They sharply criticize the reduction of family benefits and the abolition of the income tax exemption for pensioners, calling them "brutal cuts."

In social policy, the focus is on the fierce criticism surrounding the reversal of family benefits and the taxation of pensions. The speaker highlights Estonia's most significant demographic crisis and low birth rate, linking the cuts to family benefits with the loss of credibility in the state's social policy. He/She stresses the importance of a sense of social justice and solidarity.