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That is the priority for the Parliament, not the setting up of more committees and having more navel-gazing debates. Let us get down to the work that we were elected to do.
That is what I was thinking, and it would allow us to get some more information. March 2005 is only six months away, but the new governance procedures will only just have had time to bed in.
Many pensioners who have waited years for the settlement are unlikely to live for long enough to receive the benefits of that settlement if we do not get a solution on the table. Will the minister give us an assurance about that?
The First Minister does not have to send Mr McConnell to Nigeria to find out what makes a successful school, however much he might want to get Mr McConnell out of the country.
After his performance in his six days in office, does he agree that, in the words of the song, "Things can only get better"? I always think that the mark of a talented politician is to stick with one issue and keep going.