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I put pressure on them to do something about it—perhaps even to make a home visit, on which someone with training would recognise the problem—but my request was refused.
The Executive can start doing that next year, when there will be a new committee and a new convener.I think that Susan Deacon is the only member who has not commented; do you want to say anything?
I suspect that the elections to the European Parliament and so on delayed the production of new databases. The report should be on stream every two months now.
Not only will we have the strategic environmental assessments required as a result of new European legislation, but we will go further, as our partnership agreement states.
If they saw the guidance, they might be satisfied with the new regime. I will send a copy of the Executive's response to all three of the petitioners and refer all three of the petitions back to the Public Petitions Committee.
In recent months, four members have suggested measures that could easily be incorporated into a new civic government bill. Those measures concern litter, dog fouling, fireworks and hedges.