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(S2O-9187) The Executive is fully committed to ensuring that our top athletes have the best possible support to allow them to perform at their best on the international stage.
However, the responsibility for funding local organisations is best made at local level. What the Executive wants to do is to transfer the money that we are investing in a more appropriate way to those who are best able to make local decisions.
We might have a children's commissioner to ask about that. We hope so. My final point is that research often points the way to the correct facts and solutions.
The question whether someone has capacity—and the degree of that capacity—is a legal matter.Further to my first point, the bill is structured to have the flexibility to deal with varying levels of capacity as best as can be ascertained.
Responses are being collated and will be published on the Executive's website. A report will be published by the summer and ministers will thereafter consider what further action to take.
The Committee believes that these expectations will equally need to be carefully managed and addressed with respect to membership of the proposed National Care Service Board. It further points out that the National Care Service Board's capacity to reach decisions effectively will be partly dependent on its overall membership numbers.