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What safeguards exist to prevent private landlords from abusing the free central heating programme by inflating the rents that are paid by pensioner tenants or even evicting those tenants and selling the property or re-letting it to other tenants at an increased rent?
Des McNulty is right to draw attention to the benefits of screening, as it is an invaluable tool in the early detection of disease that allows appropriate treatment to be given, where such treatment is available.
Moundbite 4 is what the Welsh call a chamberweb. A touch-screen computer is buried in each desk of the Welsh Assembly, giving members on-screen access.
It may be beneficial to members to visit Dublin to see why the Parliament there has changed to a new procedure, how it has gone about it and what changes have resulted.
More than 40 years ago, a group of Scottish university students visited the Soviet Union. Donald was one, I was another and the Deputy Presiding Officer, George Reid, was also there.
We can decide to do the inquiry over a long period of time, so I do not envisage its being discussed at every meeting. The inquiry might involve some visits and so on, but not every committee member has to attend and the visits do not have to take place on the same days as committee meetings.