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There was a delay in the laying of the order. The response suggests that that was our fault for having been closed over the Christmas period. I think that the holidays that we took at Christmas were probably the same public holidays that others took, including Executive officials. It therefore seems to me rather disingenuous for the Executive to say that the fault is ours because we were not open for business when it was not open for business either. However, there is probably no point in getting involved in a name-calling and mud-throwing exercise. We shall simply draw the order to the attention of the Parliament on the ground that there was unjustifiable delay in its submission.