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Not all Administrations will be as generous as this one claims to be. A future Administration might want the justice and home affairs budget to be a bit tighter, although that is hard to believe given current circumstances.
It is our duty to raise such issues of competence at the outset, rather than repenting at leisure at some future date. I go along with that. One point that the Executive makes is that all legislation has to be ECHR-compliant, but it is entirely appropriate for the lead committee to pursue the Executive and seek assurance that section 64 does comply with the...
The public will, however, have an opportunity to make representations on any future application and the planning authority would have to take those into account.
Against the background that I have given, it would not be helpful to introduce a requirement to ballot parents on the future self-governing status of the school, and I ask the committee to reject the amendment.
It would have been useful to have had someone here today to answer factual questions. In future we could do that, even for 15 or 20 minutes, with the answers on the record, or we can write to the Executive, although that will mean a delay.
That is unfortunate, but I like to think that we will have time to pick up on the most pertinent points. I hope that, in future years, we will spend more time on this process.
You are creating a special case for the Executive. It does not augur well for the future conduct of debates on members' bills if the Executive is to be allowed to interfere in this manner.
They should ensure that powers are drafted sufficiently clearly and that the granter understands the extent of the powers that they are conferring on their future attorney.Section 18(2)(e) has a sweeping power for the sheriff to revoke any of an attorney's powers, or their appointment.
Our view is that it is long term; there is no need to rush at it immediately, given the pressure with regard to any future legislation on housing policy. We also need to have the drugs inquiry.