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I hope that any reparation under the provisions that we put in the bill will be seen as additional to what victims will, I hope, continue to get under the criminal injuries compensation scheme.
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?