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Our job as a legislature is to provide the best evidence base that we can on the issue, and I do not think that we have completely exhausted that point.
That, in a sense, is at the core of what we are talking about today. I recognise that I am probably in a minority on that provision in the bill and I suspect that we will not proceed with it, but I merely make the point.
Anne-Marie Smith illustrated the point better than I could. The general point is that people are aware of the impact that a direct debit going wrong can have.
I now call Keith Harding. It would be helpful if you pressed the button. It is pressed. It is normal to press the button if you want to be called, but I knew that you wished to speak.
We should ask him for details of those, at least as a starting point. We will have an opportunity to revisit the issue when the minister comes before the committee to talk about the Judicial Appointments Board next month.
The community recycling sector is diverting from landfill more waste than the best-performing local authority.On economic impact, the sector has an annual turnover of about £25 million to £26 million.
Many of its recommendations had already been accepted and implemented by the Executive—I have talked about the statement of 5 October.It would be a retrograde step even to consider some of the measures that the group has proposed, as they are counter to Sutherland's recommendations on the single body and point of ent...