Robin Reda wants to install a sound level meter in the National Assembly. Sebastien SORIANO / Le Figaro
The elected official of Essonne Robin Reda wants to alert on “sound levels incompatible with the good hearing health” of parliamentarians.
The banging of the desks, the cries of protest, the boos of disgruntled elected officials… And 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 thesound 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 for 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 besources of stress, loss of productivity and increased danger of psychological suffering“, according to Robin Reda, who warns against the “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 presenceincreasedof deputies at the Palais Bourbon – notably required at the moment -, as well as “the virulence of the exchanges», lead «regularly when the hearing tolerance threshold is exceeded“. 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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At FigaroRobin Reda explains that he had a “brief exchangewith the president. She would have told him herinterest in this proposalasking his team to look into the matter.
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