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Do you think that, if there is going to be regulatory change, it should be considered every five years so that it keeps as up to date as possible with the current climate?
We have to be careful that we are not apportioning a degree of blame to people for not being up-to-date with current technology, ways of thinking and building management practices.
However, I add the caveat that I put in my submission, which is that many victims of domestic abuse start by saying, “I am going to face him in court”, but as the court date gets closer that becomes just too much.
We must be able to say when a tool has come to the end of its life and we need a new one, and we need to be able to keep the tools that we have up to date. That important process is missing.
However, the Government has also stated a longer-term, broader goal of getting the budget back into balance, and the date that it has put on that is broadly 2025.
We do not know whether that will be possible, but that research is being undertaken with the objective of aligning the release dates. The research is being done because it seems a worthwhile pursuit and there is an opportunity to bring the release dates closer together.
I checked on Monday and found that, to date this year, the registrations team, which is made up of three individuals, has processed more than 18,000 transactions.