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We should do whatever we can to arrest the roll out until all the questions are raised.I do not think that writing to the petitioners to ask for their response to the responses will get us any more information than we already have.
If a committee has gone through such a rigorous process to get the Parliament to agree to its proposal, there must be some trust and faith in the committee's drafting of the bill.
Is it not the case that because the European Union has not passed the regulation we cannot get any undertaking? That was my reading of it, but I may well be wrong.
It was interesting to be reminded of that, because sometimes when we sit through evidence-taking sessions we get confused by all the messages that we get.
The term needs to be protected because, otherwise, people will have no clue what they will get. You are saying that none of the proposals so far encompasses all that.
If we go for all, a lot of monitoring and evaluation must be done to get to the bottom of whether fraudulent voting and personation have occurred and whether all the extra votes have been cast by real people who have cast valid votes.
The point that I made is that that is not an answer which the member can get from me, as I know no more than he does about when the documents will be ready.
We may have to defer it for a couple of meetings, as we have quite a lot of business to get through to ensure that we have the report on private bills ready for the 11 May debate.