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I understand why people want that to happen on complex issues, but I must reach a judgment about the appropriate level of investigation, inquiry, examination and intervention that is required in any case.I gave a commitment to the Haemophilia Society and others that, as a new Executive and as the new Minister for Hea...
Some of the language that Andrew Wilson used was a little heated. This is a new Parliament and we have always known that we would come across new situations constantly, for which we would have to develop protocols and good working practices.
We believe that they are the sort of people who will staff the senior management positions in the new companies, or start up new companies of their own, of which we have a number currently running.
Substantial sums of public money were being handed over to new boards for the first time. Those boards comprised people who were all entirely new to the task.
Are you confident that the process of reform that you have undertaken took on board the concerns of the organisations that are part of the new, more integrated structure? Yes.
If anyone seriously questions the wisdom of that approach, they need only look at New York. In the 1980s and 1990s, New York had an appalling record on crime and, interestingly, community policing had withered away.