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However, the critical point that people should take from the debate is that we have new powers and new investment. We will use those powers to their full extent.
All the deaths that occurred in Hong Kong in 1997 were from direct transmission of the avian virus, which is the normal route for new flu viruses. The potential for a pandemic is present.
If such organisations are held to be better informed about volunteers and employees, will that create new liabilities and therefore mean new costs for them?
I was involved in writing a book that suggested that people should be allowed to sit on committees. That was one of the new ideas for this Parliament, but there was political resistance to it.
It is an interesting petition and it is good that the wider aspects that we heard about when we went on our pre-legislative visits have been brought to our attention.