By Plenary Sessions: Riina Sikkut

The speaker's main social priority is gender equality and social well-being. He/She strongly supports the implementation of the 60:40 principle in the governing bodies of listed companies to improve gender balance at the decision-making level. He/She also emphasizes the need to ensure sufficient funding for education, healthcare, and pensions.

The social focus is pronounced, highlighting the negative impact of tax hikes on lower-income households and their ability to cope, particularly due to the rising cost of the daily food basket. It calls for implementing mitigating social measures, such as increasing subsidies for school meals or extracurricular activities, or raising the subsistence minimum, in order to offset the VAT increase.

The speaker addresses immigration, advocating for the reduction of the income requirement for skilled workers (to 1.5 times the average salary). They emphasize that for lower-income immigrants, it is essential to ensure state support in the form of language instruction and familiarization with cultural life, given that they lack a support network in Estonia.

The primary social issue is educational inequality, which the speaker is attempting to tackle by ensuring that all children achieve proficiency in mathematics. The objective is to guarantee that schools with poorer outcomes receive supplementary support, thereby ensuring social equity in educational access.

The speaker is a passionate advocate for gender equality, supporting the implementation of quotas (60:40) to improve female representation in governing bodies. He/She emphasizes that the directive specifically addresses men and women (biological sex) and rejects introducing the topic of transgenderism into the discussion, viewing it as a topic "imported from across the ocean" that has little relevance to the processes currently underway in Estonia.

The focus is on social issues, such as the economic plight of platform workers and the impact of rising costs associated with the care reform. Emphasis is placed on children's mental health and ensuring a safe environment for growth, prioritizing vocational schools in rural areas (e.g., Vana-Vigala) over those in Tallinn. Regional policy is viewed directly as a key driver of population policy and growth in the birth rate.