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Information on custodial sentences is available by court rather than local authority. Figures for the three latest available years are shown in tables 2 to 4.
Several times, the Executive passes the buck to local authorities in a politically dishonest way, without providing the extra resources that local authorities require to employ new officers and new site managers and to develop new sites.
Indeed, I had never visited Ireland. Since becoming an MSP, I have been fortunate enough to visit Ireland on a number of occasions, not least as a member of the Parliament's delegation to the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body.
Let me be quite clear about this. You would be quite happy for the new section to be inserted—in particular, section 26(1)(b)—but you have an argument about section 26(1)(a), which refers to "stable family life".