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Nils Seye Larsen (MP)
What Nils Seye Larsen has said in the chamber of the Swedish Riksdag, debate by debate. The lines under each debate sum up a speech; they are written and translated by AI in advance and may contain errors, so check against the speech.
Kammarkoll has the Riksdag's speeches from 26 September 2022 onwards; older debates are not included.
Human rights, rule of law, economy and crime debate in Riksdag
- Argues that the Ostkustbanan is a strategically important but worn-out bottleneck that affects business, infrastructure, and preparedness. Wants to invest in Nya Ostkustbanan to increase capacity, reduce travel times, and shift transport from road to rail. Read the speech
Care reform for addiction and psychiatric conditions in Sweden
- Argues that the reform is insufficient because it lacks clear treatment responsibility for the regions, long-term funding, and a sufficient child perspective. Wants the government to conduct an in-depth child impact assessment and ensure equal access to low-threshold activities throughout the country. Read the speech
Municipalities to employ doctors for elderly care competence
- Supports the ambition to strengthen medical competence and clarify agreements on physician involvement. Opposes, however, the proposal that municipalities shall hire doctors as it creates parallel structures, unclear responsibility and unequal care. Read the speech
Social assistance reform: benefit caps and work principle
- Criticizes that the government's policy to combat exclusion through the job tax credit has not had the desired effect. Asks if there is a problem with the government's reasoning since Sweden has poorer employment development than other European countries. Read the speech
- Asks if the member sees the logic problem in the theory that unemployment decreases if one simply raises incomes for workers and lowers benefits. Argues that alternatives exist through investments in labor market measures, education, and municipal welfare. Read the speech
- Proposes rejection of the bill because it risks making poor families with children poorer and hits hard against people with small margins. Criticizes the government's out-of-touch view of the social assistance and argues that the reform weakens the ultimate safety net for children, women, and persons with disabilities. Read the speech
Activity requirements for social assistance recipients
- Supports the activity requirement but warns against the administrative burden on the municipalities. Asks what practical conditions exist for the municipalities to implement the requirements. Read the speech
- Argues that the number of people receiving social assistance is historically low. Criticizes the harsh requirements and the punitive fines as they create an enormous administrative burden for primary care and social services. Read the speech
- Argues that people with social assistance want to work but suffer from financial stress. Supports activity requirements if they are individually tailored and flexible, but criticizes the government for placing the responsibility on the municipalities instead of taking state responsibility. Warns of administrative burden and risks that people with mental illness fall through the cracks. Read the speech
Elderly care and support for relatives: resources and rules
- Welcomes the proposal for a fixed care contact, clearer support for relatives and children. Criticizes that the government adds requirements without providing sufficient financial resources or solving the competence supply. Wants to modernize the language used in the legislation. Read the speech
Abolish food requirements for serving licenses to cut costs
- Welcomes parts of the bill as today's regulations are not always purposeful. Argues that the food requirement for small businesses is complicated and expensive, but wants to retain the requirement for an own kitchen for catering to avoid ambiguity. Read the speech
LSS interventions: Nationalize decisions to end welfare lottery
- Criticizes that the LSS legislation has been juridified and that case law creates enormous differences in support measures. Argues that a rapid investigation and review of the law is required to return to its original intention and ensure equality. Read the speech
- Argues that a juridification process and stricter assessments have created a destructive spiral where individuals fall through the cracks. Asks how the LSS legislation can be changed to ensure equal support measures without bureaucratic struggle. Read the speech
- Argues that national actors such as Försäkringskassan must be held accountable for strict assessments. Criticizes that guidelines have not improved housing support for persons with schizophrenia. Asks if the government will carry out a legal review and allocate funding. Read the speech
Healthcare priorities: reform agenda, queue figures and regions
- Wants to establish national quality registers for endometriosis and abortion care and strengthen women's healthcare and maternity care. Criticizes the government's reduced budget allocations for these areas. Proposes a national cardiovascular strategy, a national strategy for rare diagnoses with a coordinator and regional ethics councils. Wants to investigate active euthanasia. Read the speech
Healthcare organization: private insurance, online care, GP reform
- Argues that healthcare is underfunded and requires a primary care lift with increased resources, better working conditions, and competence supply. Criticizes the efficiency delegation and proposes that it be scrapped, that the nationally imposed right of establishment be abolished as well as that "A way in" be introduced for children. Read the speech
Healthcare organization: KD state governance, S primary care, SD wages
- Asks what the Sverigedemokraterna have concretely done to improve healthcare in sparsely populated areas. Also asks if they are prepared to take back control in public hands to reduce welfare crime. Read the speech
- Asks what the Sweden Democrats have concretely done to improve healthcare in rural areas and strengthen the supply of competence. Also asks why nothing has been done to address private actors with criminal connections despite known problems. Read the speech
Children and young people in social services and child poverty
- Asks about the need to bring HVB homes back under public control to ensure quality. Also asks if the member sees problems with the government's proposal on intermediate coercion lacking empirical support and creating concern within social services. Read the speech
- Asks why the investigation was not tasked to review operating models in a dysfunctional market with dominant private actors. Criticizes that they want to introduce reforms without empirical evidence and without listening to the profession. Read the speech
- Criticizes that the social services often fail to reach children in time and that HVB homes are run by profit interests or criminal connections. Wants to investigate regulations for individual meetings with social workers, bring HVB homes back into public ownership and establish a crisis commission against child poverty. Read the speech
Social services resources and support for children and youth
- Asks if the member sees the problems with the private HVB market and if there is a need for public control to increase the quality. Also asks if the party wants a more equal society and to reduce child poverty. Read the speech
- Notes that immigration is economically profitable. Criticizes the government's prioritization of tax cuts for the wealthy over combating growing inequality and child poverty. Asks whether the Sweden Democrats have accepted the tax cuts or if they do not see the problems with the private HVB market. Read the speech
Healthcare competence supply, e-health and preparedness debate
- Wants improved working conditions, shorter working hours and long-term investments in the work environment to strengthen the skill supply. Argues that the government should proceed with national plans for skill supply, increase educational places and facilitate for foreign labor. Criticizes the restrictive migration policy and wants to stop the closure of Sollefteå hospital. Proposes regulation of online doctor companies to ensure equal care and urges the government to accept patients from Gaza. Read the speech
Language requirements in elderly care: B2 level and staff
- Argues that language is important for communication, but that a language requirement requires long-term state funding and resources for competence development. Wants an expert authority to set the language level and emphasizes that better staffing and working environment are crucial for the quality. Read the speech
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- Asks if the member means that municipalities have deliberately chosen staff with deficient competence over competent Swedes. Explains that municipalities have often been forced to hire people with deficient language skills due to staff shortages and asks for the Sweden Democrats' solutions for the competence supply. Read the speech
Social services' responsibility for victims of violence measures
- Criticizes structural flaws in the social services' risk assessments and cooperation. Wants to freeze the licensing requirement for idea-driven actors, increase the state's financial support to protected housing and guarantee support and trauma processing for foreign women in prostitution without risk of deportation. Read the speech
Elderly care staffing, freedom of choice and B2 language
- Argues that municipalities need more resources and competence to ensure a dignified elderly care. Wants to invest more resources, introduce a national elderly ombudsman, strengthen the rights of the elderly and combat involuntary loneliness. Read the speech
Support for persons with disabilities: assessment and funding
- Criticizes that financial support has not kept pace with price increases and that restrictive assessments have eroded the right to personal assistance, escort services, and transport services. Wants a review of needs assessments, a long-term funding model for assistance compensation, and new legislation on escort services. Read the speech
Disability support: SD wants more than 1.5% indexed increase
- Asks how the Sverigedemokraterna view the issues and what they are doing to get the government to act. Wants the Sverigedemokraterna to support the demand for a companion law so that persons with visual impairments are not denied essential companionship. Read the speech
- Argues that the Sweden Democrats should push harder for the matter. Wants a guide dog law for persons with visual impairments. Criticizes that the promised indexation was missing and that the increase of 1.5 percent is catastrophic. Read the speech
- Criticizes that the government's words on participation are not matched by practical action. Argues that the lack of a new leadership law and restrictions in the transport service are failures, and that the low assistance allowance is a betrayal. Read the speech
- Argues that the government has not prioritized the area and criticizes that the ledsagningslagen and the färdtjänsten have not moved forward. Warns of a crisis within the assistance service due to low wages and questions whether a 1.5 percent increase is reasonable. Read the speech
- Criticizes the government for prioritizing incorrectly in the budget and piling up investigations without results. Argues that people with visual impairments are denied crucial guidance and transport services, as well as that the low assistance calculation makes it impossible to retain staff. Read the speech
- Admits that the Green Party did not make sufficient increases during its time in government. Criticizes current budget priorities and wants to see an investigation of the LSS Act to improve needs assessments. Read the speech
Naloxone access: KD wants over-the-counter pharmacy sales
- Argues that drugs and abuse are a major societal problem. Asks when the legislative change that enables security guards and other personnel to carry naloxone can be expected. Read the speech
- Thanks the government that naloxone can already be purchased over the counter. Argues that legislative changes must be implemented quickly to increase access for risk groups and professional groups. Asks when legislative changes and results from investigations can be expected. Read the speech
- Appeals for legislative changes to be implemented as soon as possible to save lives. Hopes that the Narcotic Investigation's proposals will be moved forward without ideological obstacles in order to reduce harmful effects and help people become free from addiction. Read the speech
Good and close care: VFP wants indexed state grants
- Welcomes the proposals but expresses concern regarding feasibility due to underfunding and lack of competence. Argues that the transition requires long-term stable funding and criticizes that current migration policy harms the supply of competence by deterring foreign-born healthcare personnel. Read the speech
Fiscal framework: National debt and 30-year deficit claims
- Argues that the government is pursuing a deficit-driven economic policy by borrowing to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. Wants to develop the fiscal framework to more clearly enable strategic investments in the climate transition. Read the speech
Medicines and dental care: SD, S, V, and MP debate reforms
- Expresses concern over the increase of the high-cost protection for pharmaceuticals which affects vulnerable groups. Argues that Sweden needs a greater state responsibility for special pharmaceuticals and wants to create incentives for more environmentally friendly pharmaceuticals. Read the speech
Alcohol, drugs, tobacco and gambling policy debate
- Asks whether the goal of the policy should be to reduce nicotine use overall. Also asks whether a higher limit for the nicotine content in white snus products should be introduced as well as what the goal was with lowering the snus tax. Read the speech
- Argues that a tax cut for snus is a reward for an unhealthy habit. Criticizes that Sweden allows products with high nicotine content and argues that France has successfully reduced smoking without replacing cigarettes with other nicotine products. Wants the narcotics policy to have the goal that people should free themselves from abuse. Read the speech
- Wants to implement proposals from the Narcotics Inquiry and the Co-morbidity Inquiry. Argues that the focus should shift towards harm minimization, advocates for better resources for non-profit organizations and requests inquiries into alternative sanctions for personal use. Read the speech
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- Confirms that the party is generally in favor of consumption rooms but argues that this requires a change in the law. Read the speech
Public health law, vaccination programs and mental health
- Argues that public health is linked with social sustainability and the environment. Wants to investigate and introduce a public health act, suggests that the state takes greater responsibility for coordinated vaccination programs and motions for a new action plan for mental health with measurable indicators. Criticizes the leisure card as fragmented and inefficient and advocates instead for long-term investments in civil society. Read the speech
Public health: SD, S, and V debate healthcare inequalities
- Questions about whether the member believes that dietary advice should be based on scientific facts and what should be changed in the Swedish Food Agency's recommendations. Read the speech
- Agrees that processed food is concerning. Asks if the Sweden Democrats believe that recommendations to residents should be based on research and criticizes the party for spreading political maneuvers and alternative research. Read the speech
Work permits for personal assistants and organized crime risks
- Criticizes that the government's decision lacks an empirical basis and risks appearing politically motivated. Argues that the problems primarily concern unserious assistance companies and asks how the government intends to solve the acute shortage of personal assistants. Read the speech
- Argues that the shortage of personal assistants is due to poor working conditions, structural problems in the labor market, and requirements for personal suitability. Asks why the door must be closed for work permits when one can instead combat the fraud among the assistance providers. Read the speech
- Argues that there is an acute shortage of suitable labor within personal assistance. Criticizes that the door is being closed for serious job seekers instead of focusing on those who commit crimes. Read the speech
Healthcare and social care funding and staff conditions
- Criticizes the government's cuts and micro-management which deteriorate the healthcare work environment and underfund care. Wants to invest in healthcare, primary care, women's healthcare and psychiatry, lower the high-cost protection for medicines as well as improve support for persons with disabilities. Read the speech
Healthcare, medical and social care: KD, S, and SD proposals
- Wants to stop deportations of healthcare staff. Argues that investments in Swedish education are the best way to ensure good Swedish in elderly care. Asks how the member views the healthcare's financial conditions given the budget's reduced investments. Read the speech
- Criticizes that elderly care is described as an integration project. Argues that the government is deprioritizing health and medical care by reducing funding and investing in short-term one-off measures instead of long-term governance. Read the speech
- Argues that it is an advantage if staff and users understand each other. Wants to stop deportations of healthcare staff as these constitute invaluable employees in elderly care. Asks if the member sees the problems with thousands of healthcare workers being deported. Read the speech
- Argues that persons with temporary residence permits perform invaluable work within healthcare. Asks how to ensure that Sweden retains the healthcare personnel that are needed. Read the speech
Dental care high-cost protection: SD wants 90% state pay
- Supports the government's proposal on reinforced high-cost protection as a first step towards a more equitable system. Argues that need, rather than age, should govern access to dental care and criticizes that the reform does not cover preventive care or prostheses behind the fifth tooth. Read the speech
Health and Social Care Inspectorate tools to combat welfare crime
- Supports the bill for sharper tools for the Health and Social Care Inspectorate. Criticizes the private HVB market and wants the state to regain control by investing in HVB homes in public ownership. Asks whether the government ensures resources for the authority. Read the speech
Healthcare preparedness: KD wants state funding and no regions
- Argues that competence supply is one of the biggest bottlenecks for the healthcare's preparedness. Asks why one has not been more active in providing economic resources to the regions as well as how one views the deportation of healthcare personnel. Read the speech
- Argues that northern Sweden suffers from a shortage of healthcare staff and lacks necessary overcapacity. Criticizes that the budget lacks funding and measures to ensure the supply of competence. Read the speech
- Welcomes the bill because it clarifies the healthcare's preparedness. However, criticizes the closure of emergency hospitals in northern Sweden and emphasizes the need for secured funding as well as solutions to the competence crisis. Read the speech
Disability policy: Riksrevisionen report and sector responsibility
- Criticizes that the report risks becoming a shelf-warmer without political will. Argues that more agencies should be given clear sectoral responsibility and suggests measurable sub-targets in the action plan as well as an investigation into incorporating the UN convention into Swedish legislation. Read the speech
Assistance allowance indexing and government increase proposal
- Expresses disappointment that the indexing has been omitted and that the increase of 1.5 percent is insufficient. Argues that the low wage makes it difficult to find staff and requests what has happened with the long-term conditions. Read the speech
- Argues that the lack of long-term conditions and unfulfilled promises regarding indexing creates great disappointment. Points out that the difficulty of finding staff due to low increases opens the door for unserious actors and makes it impossible for serious organizers to conduct the operations. Read the speech
Leisure card for children: KD support, C and S criticize
- Move to approve reservation 1. Argues that the leisure card has major flaws and leads to significant administration, as it does not tackle the larger problems of including all children in an active leisure time. Read the speech
National strategy for mental health and suicide prevention
- Welcomes the strategy's high level of ambition and holistic perspective. Criticizes the lack of resources for the municipalities and argues that the strategy should include trans people as well as a clearer equality and gender perspective. Read the speech
Healthcare organization: nationalization, regional care, subsidies
- Wants to support the reservation and demand better coordinated support for people with co-morbidity. Criticizes underfunding, unequal care and the right of establishment within primary care, while simultaneously advocating for more resources and better working conditions for healthcare personnel. Read the speech
Health and medical care: KD wants state takeover of regions
- Argues that funding is not the only solution but that priorities are required. Points out that cost increases are primarily due to the purchase of services from private healthcare providers and that administration is increasing. Read the speech
- Argues that the current market experiment creates an unequal healthcare consumption. Criticizes that online doctor companies are consumed mostly in densely populated areas, which drives up costs. Asks if there are problems with a CEO of an online doctor company sitting in an efficiency delegation. Read the speech
Foreign policy, education, healthcare and UNRWA funding
- Argues that the new grading system risks increasing students' mental ill-health because the national tests carry more weight. Asks how the government will counteract stress and depression among students if the system is introduced. Read the speech
High-cost protection for medicines: KD and M propose increase
- Opposeses the increase of the high-cost protection as it hits the chronically ill and persons with disabilities hardest. Criticizes the lack of a consequence analysis and demands that the government withdraws the proposal. Read the speech
Student housing building requirements: lower rents and costs
- Criticizes that the government proposes to weaken the accessibility requirements for new student housing. Argues that it is wrong to build inaccessibly in the future and that housing should be built so that it can be used and adapted over time. Read the speech
New social services act: preventive work and children's rights
- Welcomes the new law but warns that preventive work risks being underfunded. Criticizes the return mission, intermediate coercion as well as the lack of statutory respectful treatment. Wants to strengthen the children's rights perspective and establish specialist training for social workers. Read the speech
- Wish to vote in favor of reservation 3 and 18. Read the speech
Small-scale farm alcohol sales for tourism industry debate
- Argues that the proposal risks overturning Systembolaget's monopoly by conflicting with EU law. Suggests that small producers should instead be strengthened through cooperation with restaurants or sales via Systembolaget in order to protect public health. Read the speech
Healthcare and preparedness: crisis stocks, staffing, and military
- Proposes approval of reservation 14 on the work environment. Argues that staff shortages and resource shortages create an unsustainable work situation and unequal care. Advocates for a national action plan for skills supply and criticizes high requirements for supply of foreign-born individuals. Read the speech
- Argues that proximity to the staff is important for developing the operations and opposes the nationalization of healthcare. Points out that budget deficits and lack of resources hinder proactive work within the regions. Read the speech
- Argues that regions have limited resources due to low median incomes. Suggests that general grants are more effective than investigations and targeted grants. Wants the skills shortage to be tackled nationally and in a coordinated manner together with municipalities and regions. Read the speech
Social services responsibility for domestic violence victims
- Notes that violence in close relationships is devastating and agrees with the proposal for an investigation into why asylum seekers have fallen through the safety net. Wants the government to work on measures for women with disabilities and dependency issues. Moves for approval of the reservation on prostitution and wants the government to return with proposals for exit programs to better help persons in prostitution and human trafficking. Read the speech
Social services for children: parenting, foster homes, resources
- Proposes approval of reservation 7. Argues that preventive work requires a holistic view where support from family, school, and leisure activities reduces the need for social services. Proposes that foster parents should be able to receive parental leave benefits for placed children. Wants to see increased state funding for foster care placements, better support for foster homes as well as a reclaiming of HVB homes (residential care homes) under public management. Also proposes a zero vision for child poverty. Read the speech
Elderly care: resources, freedom of choice and quality
- Proposes approval of the reservation. Argues that municipalities need more resources, better employment conditions, and skills development to meet the challenges in elderly care. Criticizes the residency requirements and the abolition of the "spårbyte" (track switching) which affects staff with a foreign background. Suggests educational initiatives for employees with a foreign background and wants to invest in an improved work environment and different working time models. Read the speech
Support for people with disabilities: M, V, and C debate
Healthcare, schools, children's rights and economic issues
- Asks how the investigation into the indexation of the flat-rate compensation is progressing and whether it is keeping to the schedule. Also asks if there is a possibility to increase the compensation before an indexation to reduce the economic gap. Read the speech
Sweden trade policy: free trade, EU market and Mercosur
- Argues that Europe must reduce its dependence on other countries and act more independently in trade agreements. Wants the EU to continue to set high environmental and climate requirements in bilateral trade agreements and emphasizes the importance of combined requirements, investments, and support for industrial development. Read the speech
Social Services Act: KD, S and MP debate preventive work
- Proposes approval of reservation 11. Argues that the social services need resources, competence, and cooperation with civil society and urban planning. Wants to raise the national standard for maintenance support and introduce a transition period where households retain parts of the support when transitioning to work. Criticizes the government's current solution for threshold effects. Wants to give the social services increased responsibility to assist all families with children in homelessness and demands that landlords must inform the social services in case of risk of eviction. Proposes a narrow time limit for emergency housing and a national action plan for housing supply. Read the speech
Medicines and dental care: high-cost protection and funding
- Proposes approval of the reservation on medicines and the environment. Argues that the Swedish generics system should be reviewed to take into account environmental aspects and suggests that TLV should include more contraceptives and medicines against endometriosis in the medicine subsidy. Read the speech
Sis special youth homes: Audit report on care deficiencies
- Criticizes deficiencies in staff competence, the care environment, and lack of individual adaptation at the Sis homes. Proposes a competence boost, a new specialist education for social workers as well as increased investment in preventive measures through two billion kronor. Read the speech
Social policy, environment, labor market and school issues
- Asks whether the government will lower the unreasonably high maintenance requirements. Argues that high requirements lead to deportations of people who are needed in healthcare and the business sector, especially in northern Sweden where there is an acute shortage of labor. Read the speech
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Sweden electricity production plans 2030-2035 10 GW goal
- Argues that a long-term, scientifically grounded plan for energy supply and the climate transition is needed. Criticizes the government's rhetoric and argues that electrification has been limited while new nuclear power is lacking in the near term. Read the speech
- Argues that the expansion of offshore wind power is necessary for the industry's climate transition and energy supply in the near term. Criticizes the government's populist rhetoric which has led to municipal vetoes and advocates for alternative solutions for regulated production beyond nuclear power. Read the speech
Regional development: rural business support and wind revenue
- Abstains from the decision as Miljöpartiet proposes a different budget for a sustainable countryside. Rejects the saving of 100 million kronor and wants revenues from wind and water to strengthen welfare in sparsely populated municipalities. Read the speech
- Proposes an investment of 2.5 billion SEK for leasing of electric cars to people in rural areas. Criticizes the government's policy which increases dependence on fossil fuels and argues that regional policy should not only be about fuel costs. Read the speech
- Argues that municipalities and regions should receive a share of revenues from wind and hydropower. Wants to invest in expanded public transport and infrastructure to create a vibrant countryside. Criticizes that tax cuts on fuels have primarily benefited city dwellers and the wealthy. Read the speech
Swedish business: SD tax relief, S innovation, M nuclear
- Questions whether the American model for public financing and investments in infrastructure and energy is suitable for Sweden. Criticizes a colonialist perspective on northern Sweden's resources and forestry. Read the speech
- Argues that offshore wind power is a stable solution and criticizes that the state subsidizes nuclear power at the expense of market mechanisms. Also argues that large companies exploit natural resources in a colonialist manner. Read the speech
- Requests approval of the reservation on foreign trade and emphasizes that the industrial step has yielded positive results for regional development. Wants to strengthen the industrial step, invest in research, innovation and circular flows as well as ensure infrastructure and retain international expertise. Read the speech
Energy policy, foreign aid, national security and infrastructure
- Asks when the government can expect a construction start decision and secured financing for the Norrbotniabanan, as the railway is crucial for northern Sweden's development, business, and climate transition. Read the speech
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