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Mr Hayden, you have three minutes and then we will ask questions. The best way for me to start is to give you the background to how Trans Consult evolved.
I congratulate Ian Jenkins on being not only one of the three permanent members, as it were, but the member with the best attendance. Does that mean that he has a veto?
I have been on four or five parliamentary committees and in my view the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee is one of the better ones. The best one.I will just throw my tuppenceworth in.
However, it is important that we, as legislators, put in place the best framework to deal with it and we must ask ourselves whether amendment 148 is the best route that is open to us.
Amendment 16 is grouped with amendments 17 and 26. Again, there was compelling evidence at stage 1 about the need to align the listing process with other disciplinary procedures that might be running in parallel with it.
It is still a question. Even applying my best efficiency, I cannot remember half of what the member has said, but I will do my best to respond.The most important feature of the committee is its independence.