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There are problems with poor planning of young people's futures. When they are ready to move on, often at an early age, they must do so with little or no family to help them.
I was wondering whether there would be any way of differentiating between people's views of Westminster and of the new Parliament in any future work. That is extremely difficult to do, although we tried it in our report.
I accept that that has been the case in the past, but we are now looking to the future. The present system takes care of equalisation on spending between councils.
I am happy for the Local Government Committee to instigate its own investigation in the future, but at present I agree with the Executive that this is the wrong time.
Items in Private Item 1 on the agenda is consideration of whether we should take in private item 3 and any future consideration of the draft report on the draft budget 2005-06.
The second priority is also on page 10:"To provide training for skills that match jobs for the future". I want my children to get the skills that match jobs of the future.