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Recommendation 3 deals with the legal aid system, which appears to have let people down. Because of the date on which they were infected, consumer protection legislation cannot help those people.
Allowing the Executive to introduce many regulations at a later date does not make for good legislation.The matter of the consultation raises baby-and-bath-water issues.
That is valuable in ensuring that the legislation remains up to date on how the duties and powers are being used by local government.The bill supplies the framework, along with new powers and new flexibilities.
In that sense, we are not a universal service—in contrast to schools, for example. The main criterion to date has been to target certain user groups or deprived geographies.
Indeed, as one Labour MSP confided, the ward link often consists of changing the election date and the name of the ward on a leaflet every three or four years.In East Renfrewshire, there are 20 wards.
I shall hand over to Douglas Fergus, who will be able to tell you specifically about his sector. In my experience of ILAs to date, I have come across a number of NTOs that have positively enrolled people on ILAs in their sector.