“In 2005, the Parliament issued a recommendation to the Public Defender himself. Neither the Parliament nor the Committee which I now represent has sent any recommendations to the government structures.”

“From 1 September 2014 the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union will be enacted. This means that the customs duties with all of the 28 EU countries will be nullified.”

“We have the lowest taxes in the region, simplified border procedures, a corruption-free environment and very good public services. None of the countries in our region can offer such conditions to the West.”

“If we take away the GEL 165 million, which we spent on education, defence and agriculture, from the 2012 budget expenditure, it is clear that we spent a significantly bigger amount of money last year than in 2012, even though we couldn’t entirely gather

“There have been no cases of human rights violations in the pre-detention centres. Foreign experts visited Georgia for a second time, studied the situation and saw that we have made big progress in this field.”

“The very first shelter for homeless people was opened only in 2013.”

Nika Melia talked about projects which have been suspended in Tbilisi.

“No matter what name you give it, Lazika or Anaklia, this project is suspended today.”

“We remember very well what kind of reports were published during the previous Parliamentary elections. We remember the rating of the Georgian Dream was 12% while, in fact, it had reached 65%. It is interesting that Mr Navarro has just now recalled the il

”We should finish the topic of bonuses… the salary of Ministers was equal to GEL 6,300 in the previous year. I decreased it by GEL 1,300 in January and now they have a minimum salary of GEL 5,000. Ministers have neither any salary supplement nor any other

"According to these changes [about the Public Broadcaster], a new Monitoring Council will be established but the functions of this Council are advisory in nature. The Law on [the Public] Broadcaster already provided for the existence of the Advisory Counc

Zurab Japaridze discusses the problems related to the expenditures of the 2013 budget.

“Throughout the crisis in Ukraine, not one Minister of the Georgian Government, not to mention the Prime Minister or the President, has visited Kyiv in order to express political support towards this strategic partner of our country. As far as I know, not

“There are more than 2,000 schools in Georgia and only 900 contestants have obtained certificates after seven months of competition… there are only 1,000 candidates to be school principals for 2,000 schools in Georgia….”

“Starting from November 2013, economic growth has been consistently high, varying between 7%-8%... In the first quarter of 2014, economic growth equalled 7.4%. An indicator of this magnitude has not been recorded in the first quarter of the year over the

On 30 April, representative of the Parliamentary Majority, Davit Onoprishvili, delivered a speech