The slamming of desks, cries of protest, boos from disgruntled elected officials... What if all this endangered the hearing health of our parliamentarians?
This is the warning message that a member of the majority wanted to launch, while the discussions on the pension reform are taking place in a particularly stormy atmosphere.
As president of the National Noise Council, the elected Robin Reda wrote to the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
He tries to draw his attention to the “
sound levels
” of the hemicycle “
very incompatible with good hearing health
”, and proposes to install a sound level meter in the Palais Bourbon.
This is the case, according to the deputy from Essonne, of "
the serenity of the debates
", which illustrate the "
beating drum of our democracy
".
The moment is particularly well chosen, since the deputies have been considering since Monday the text devoted to pensions carried by the government, and are multiplying in this context the sometimes particularly sound interpellations.
Only these can be “
sources of stress, loss of productivity and greater danger of psychological suffering
”, according to Robin Reda, who warns against “
hearing risks
”.
A hemicycle as noisy as the edge of a highway
According to him, “
the hemicycle of the National Assembly regularly experiences sound levels that are very incompatible with good hearing health
”.
And the " increased
" presence
of deputies at the Palais Bourbon - particularly required at the moment -, as well as "
the virulence of the exchanges
", lead "
regularly to exceeding the hearing tolerance threshold
".
Robin Reda even draws a parallel between the noise of the Lower House and that of the edge of the highway to which a passer-by would be exposed for several hours.
“
Such a noise level forces the voice to be forced, makes the interlocutors irritable, leads to difficulty concentrating and creates conflict situations.
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In
Figaro
, Robin Reda explains having had a "
brief exchange
" with the president.
She would have told him of her "
interest in this proposal
", asking her team to look into the matter.
