Strategic Choices
Document Actions
4.2. Motions & Questions
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Motions and Questions are the main modalities by which MPs exercise their legislative activities as well as oversight of the Executive. Motions and Questions are very important also from the point of view of citizens because they can provide a good indication of the concrete actions taken by the MPs to carry out their mandate.
The system module for Motions and Questions:
- provides a web-based interface for submitting motions and questions. The web form for entering the content of the Motions and Questions provides a rich text editor capable of allowing simple formatting like indentation, underline/bold typeface, numbering and bullets; [Plone]
- supports a web-based revision workflow for motions and questions. The system keeps each new version of the Motion/Question as it goes through the revision process prior to being accepted for tabling in the house. It uses the document versions feature to keep track of possible internal editing that a motion/question may go through during the approval workflow; versions are kept only for accountability reasons and are not accessible by the public (all changes are also written to an audit log); [Plone]
- provides an interface to record data such as the results of votes on a Motion or whether a Question has been tabled, debated, etc.; [Plone] [Registry]
- provides an interface to export approved motions and questions to the "Parliamentary Business" (Calendar), "Votes and Proceedings" and "Debate Report" module; [Plone] [Registry]
- allows searching for Motions and Questions based on MPs, by bill proposal, by topics and also supports linking or cross-referencing of the Motions and Questions with the related Debate Records so that it is possible to retrieve the debate report's portions relative to a specific questions; [Plone] [XML Repository] [Debate Record]
- Note that Motions and Questions will not be indexed in the XML repository as individual documents, as they always appear within the Debate Record - they will be indexed as elements appearing within the Debate Record.