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Part of the reason why people are still saying that is that, although the COPFS gives information to its staff about new initiatives and new staff who are coming in, pressure arises from the need to absorb the changes and the new information.
I am afraid he has missed the red danger signal; his tourist gravy train has hit the buffers. What is needed is a new engine and, with respect, a new engine driver.
I mentioned Ireland and New Zealand because I visited them. However, when we drafted our original proposals, we considered other examples, such as the Canadian and Australian regimes.
A better flavour would be given if we mentioned the visits. Yes—paragraph 13 might be supplemented by a reference to the visits that the committee made.
People with incapacity might well require to be visited by someone, to have the formal right to be assessed and to have the right to benefit from removal or banning orders.