The battle to find out if Skórka visited the Sejm during gambling bill proceedings

It took Gazeta Wyborcza several weeks to find this out, as the Sejm Chancellery first had to call on two legal opinions, including one from the General Inspectorate for Personal Data Protection, before it could reveal these facts. During that time officials feared that Skórka might try to use them for invading his privacy. Gazeta Wyborcza finally managed to find out that he visited the Sejm almost every two weeks between March and June 2003. His visits were at the request of the SLD Parliamentary Club, and were when the Sejm was working on the bill, or the day before. The only exception was April 2 and 3 when Skórka was in Parliament when the Senate was voting on the parts of the gambling bill concerning the size of slot gambling machine pay outs. However, the version of the bill favorable for him did not go through. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 5) M.M.