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If we prevent one family from having to visit a grave and another family from having to go to Barlinnie or Polmont for the next 10 years to visit their teenage son, the bill will have been a success.
I tried to explain to people that, for example, their car could break down once every six months and inconvenience them. These things happen. We can buy brand-new buses, but they break down, too.
In the circumstances of Hoover's announcement, we can use the employment situation to rebuild people's careers, give them new hope and new opportunities and support companies that can prosper and are prospering.
The Executive has decided to withdraw its current draft and lay a new draft order in the new year. I suggest that we bring the Executive's response to the attention of the Parliament and the lead committee.
New, section 15D provides for an application to the court, new section 15E provides for the grant of a warrant without a hearing, and new section 15F provides for the grant of a warrant after a hearing.
The only way to restart them—to kick start them, or whatever we call it—or to form new groups will be for applications to be brought to the clerks of the new Standards Committee in the new session.
The Executive is committed to turning the potential benefits that are associated with the new contract into actual benefits for patients, staff and the NHS.