European Parliament
Goodwill (PPE-DE ).
– Mr President, earlier this year I visited Galicia to see the environmental catastrophe that was the wreck of the
Prestige
. The only word to describe it is devastation. In particular it was very distressing to see the seabirds; the endangered Galician guillemot is even more seriously threatened now because of this.
It is true that mistakes were made in the early stages and a lot of these mistakes were due to confusion between the regional and national governments. I am concerned that this inquiry will not be constructive but will be used by the Left in Spain as a stick to beat the government.
We already know the facts, we do not need a post-mortem. We need rapid action to ban rust-buckets like the
Prestige
and we also need to defend sensitive coastlines, for example the Beverley and Holderness coastline in my region. That is the reason we voted against this report.

