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We also made a commitment to monitor the implementation of care in the community. Given that the new policy was started only on 1 July last year, it would have been petulant to start jumping up and down at the time, because anything so new was obviously going to have teething problems.
We want transparency and fairness in the amounts that will be taken from local government and health boards to pay for the new arrangements, and in the level of fees that the new bodies will charge.
They have travelled from Belfast to visit this committee, and are very welcome.I welcome the witnesses and invite the lead witnesses, Mr Robert Crawford and Mr Eddie Frizzell, to introduce their colleagues.
The report sets out the key areas of work and has various statistics and details of visits undertaken. We divulged one or two of those statistics to the Legislation Committee of the National Assembly for Wales via videolink earlier this morning; we mentioned the large number of bills and SSIs that we have dealt with.
I ask the clerk to remind members of the need to get accommodation sorted out for our visit to Orkney. We have been advised that the accommodation in Orkney is going fast.