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Petitions I think that we have sufficient committee members to reconvene and get on with our business. To our visiting colleagues, I say that this has been a bit of a marathon session, but we will plough on.The committee has agreed to have an update on petitions every two months or so.
You would have more money to spend on the island if you did not have to pay so much getting there, and you would probably go to visit different places and see more of the island.
The plan is that the boards will consider applications in blocks and will have six months to get through each block. There has been nothing to specify how long a board will have to consider an application.
I am concerned that, if people are determined to get these knives but they cannot get them from licensed retailers, the trade will be driven underground.
Would you consider extending that period, perhaps to 26 or 28 hours, to allow slightly greater flexibility and to enable efficient management of the new system?