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I appreciate that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it helps educationists and practitioners if the law is clearly expressed and apparent from appropriate references in a new act.
I am afraid that you have moved out of my area of expertise. My views, as expressed in my paper, relate to the level of benefits and the impact that that has on relative inequality.
I presume that COSLA has received a lot of general feedback from local authorities about the bill's financial implications. Have concerns been expressed about those implications? Concerns have been expressed and we are in the process of gathering information.
Indeed, the current legislation on councillors' allowances is expressed in that way. Parliament will, of course, have the opportunity to contribute to the detail of that at the time when the secondary legislation is laid before it.
A question for national Government is posed by the famous McIntosh expression, "parity of esteem". The task is to decide what that expression means and how local discretion that reflects local circumstances can be reconciled with consistency throughout Scotland.
Respondents to the Equal Opportunities Committee's consultation on the AER expressed concern about the financial language that was used in the document.
Unlike the provisions about which I expressed concern at the beginning of the meeting, the power is not designed and could not be used to knacker—to use a legal term—the purposes of the bill.