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At the moment, after the resources that are allocated to local government have been identified, the amount for new initiatives is top-sliced from that sum. The remaining sum is for core services.
Our role is to influence the agenda. Without member ownership or buy-in by the locally elected members who sit on the LGA boards, it is difficult to get European issues on to the agenda.
I would not like us to be in a situation in a few years' time in which those local authorities that have great difficulties are using the tradable quota credit system to buy their way out of dealing with the problems that they face.Nora Radcliffe's point about the contribution of domestic composting was well made.
Licences can be purchased for the day or for the week, but most people would buy a licence for the season. The system is administered separately; it is not administered by the owners of local fisheries.