Room requires clarification about 'punitive' ministry Security and Justice

VD, PvdA, SP, CDA, PVV, D66 and Christian Union want to know if the reports in the NRC about "punitive expeditions" against officials who abuse denounce, right.

Officials who reported, for example, were not promoted or got to do a lot of tedious work.

The newspaper does the former Integrity Counsellor of the Ministry, Sjaak Jansen, a book open on the process at the department. This method was, he focused on the cleaning of their own insignia.

Openness

SP MP Michiel van Nispen demands that Van der Steur indicates openness. "What's going on at the Ministry?" he wants to know from the minister. According to SP Euro-MP whistleblowers should have the assurance that they are protected when they expose abuses. "Otherwise, you'll never know the truth."

CDA Madeleine Toorenburg: "A culture in which mistakes and abuses are not reported is not acceptable."

D66 wants to know if it is true that there is a class justice at the ministry. Jansen has announced in the newspaper that whistleblowers were fired for allegedly stole old printers, which did not turn out to be wrong afterwards.

"Are there really invented crimes against whistleblowers by the leadership?" Wants to know D66'er Sjoerd Sjoerdsma. "It seems that those who fight in Security and Justice for the truth are practically outlawed."

Christian Union leader Gert-Jan Segers sees the already worrisome picture of the ministry to be strengthened. "The Ministry of Security and Justice must be the guardian of the rule of law, but even counselors seem not safe," says Segers.

The Chamber argues Wednesday afternoon with the minister about the new research commissioned by the Commission Oosting. That debate will be extended by one hour so that Van der Steur also the space is provided to clarify the situation around the whistleblowers.

Teeven deal

The Ministry of Security and Justice is already under fire after revelations of the News Hour program on the so-called Teeven deal.

Following new revelations of Nieuwsuur show that had given off from internal e-mail correspondence with the IT department of the Ministry that someone from higher orders to cease the search for the receipt of the controversial deal.

Coverage in NRC says Van Nispen illustrative of how the aftermath around Teeven deal has unfolded. "Also, there are matters pushed under the carpet." Sjoerdsma "If whistleblowers are actively thwarted by executives at the Ministry, it raises the question whether officials really feel free to transfer information from itself to the Commission Oosting."

Receipt

Nieuwsuur came in March 2014 with revelations about the arrangements. Despite an investigation, getting the then Minister of Justice Ivo Opstelten not conscious receipt of appointments of H. Teeven and who was now Minister of Justice to get on the table.

Moreover Opstelten informed the Lower House about incomplete include the amount of money that was paid. The investigation commission Oosting at the whole formation of the deal and the handling of the case in 2014 led to the resignation last year of Opstelten and Teeven.

Chamber President also Anouchka van Miltenburg had to resign because of her role in the aftermath of the affair. She had the committee Oosting done wrong when the late 2014 a whistleblower at the House reported with information on the controversial deal.

Vote of censure

Van der Steur also had deep dust. Almost the entire opposition supported a motion of censure against Rutte and the new justice minister. Van der Steur was resented that he participated as a member of parliament deems the information to the Chamber.

That was not all. Van der Steur was recently once again apologize for his actions in the issue of the resignation of the MH17 Professor George Maat. Which incidentally was the third time he went through the dust.

Earlier, he had to admit that he had made ​​mistakes in the information to the House on the issue of the image of Volkert van der Graaf.

By: NU.nl / Photo: ANP