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Financial Resolutions Item 7 is an examination of a report on the issue raised by Sir David Steel about the timing of financial resolutions rule 9.12.6.
How can it be acceptable to leave a seven-year-old in a situation in which he has to climb out of the back window to run to his gran at 2 o'clock in the morning because the latest man in the house is beating up his mother over drugs?
That is why we are here: it is to do with work force planning. The Executive wants 600 new consultants, 1,500 new allied health professionals and several thousand new nurses and midwives.
We are just doing that, and we hope that the document will go out to public consultation next week at the latest. The situation has moved on a little bit.