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We cannot be diverted from our programme every time a new issue arises. There are 1,001 projects to undertake and investigations to mount and they are all important.
I hope that, if they are agreed to, they might set a new trend and a new approach.Basically, the bill contains a power that allows the Executive to enter into contracts for tagging.
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Date published:
10 September 2017
As such, information on applications will only provide us with a partial view of the situation across local authorities. Therefore any new uniform data collection system would be disproportionate to the information gathered and the costs attached to the collection of data could make the application process disproportionately expensive.
I appreciate the concern that has given rise to these amendments, but I fully believe that, once the new tribunal system is in operation, fears that the system will not be fair to parents will be allayed.
Amendment 55 will allow for the making of regulations to modify the identities of enforcing authorities. Amendment 97 makes that new regulation-making power, and the regulation-making power at section 72(6), subject to the affirmative procedure.
I was not at all convinced that the town's exclusion this year under the new arrangements was justified on the basis of additional effort; indeed, there is less effort.