The request from FDP MP Julika Sandt was dated August 31 of this year, and the state government didn’t really need that long to answer: the eleven-page document was received by the state parliament at the end of September. The answer came even within the four-week period, but the state parliament only imposed it on itself in its rules of procedure, without it being binding on the state government. Formal resolutions of the state parliament are, however, already binding for the state government. The decision of November 23, 1977, for example, which can be found in printed paper 8/6738 and with which the MPs also requested a report. This decision, writes Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) in his answer to Sandt, has “not yet taken place” and has therefore “never been submitted to a corresponding report” to the state parliament.
But it’s only October. So it would still be possible to submit the information requested “at the earliest possible point in time”, if not within four weeks, then within 44 years. On the other hand, not all MEPs seem to have waited wringing their hands for the report. FDP parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen, for example, whom Sandt is standing by as a deputy, is only 40 at all. At the time, he neither ordered the report nor did Sandt or any other current member of parliament. Just because of the role model effect of the state, Sandt would like to know how many severely disabled people are employed in the municipal administrations and companies in Bavaria.
These municipalities, companies, administrative communities and special-purpose associations are far too many to be captured, says a shrug from Füracker’s house, which has stopped counting at 2,134 authorities plus 311 administrative communities – whether after four hours, four weeks or almost 44 years is open. It is faster with the direct civil servants. The Free State as a whole is just half a percentage point above the legal requirement to fill at least five percent of the positions with severely disabled people. He clearly missed the target and also the role model function with the teachers and the university staff.