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We would like to know how putting £X million into one budget line or £Y million into another budget line actually achieves the outcomes that the Executive desires.
You refer briefly to Children 1st's development of what it calls family group conferencing. I do not know whether you visited Children 1st and saw at first hand what happens.
Even if one suspects that they will move them on as quickly as they can and that they are operating as a dealer service, at the time at which one visits such a farm one can say only that its owner has bought in stock from a number of different sources.
It suggested that the ministerial team that deals with the voluntary sector should visit different areas regularly. We made visits to the eight parliamentary regions, which was fairly successful.
Looking back, one can see that it would have been helpful to those visiting the project after the event if people had articulated what they were about in a formal way at the beginning.
I went on to say that I thought that I was correct in the advice that I had given and that the member should have done X, Y and Z on the matters that we discussed.