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Mr Smyth will be familiar with the fact that, over the course of the past 18 months, the Government has provided in excess of £4 billion of support as part of its Covid-related activities to deal with the challenges that businesses and other organisations have faced.
It is worth saying that the bulk of the responsibility for online activity rests with the UK Government, but we have to do our bit as well, and we are doing that with training, through the cyber-resilience partnerships that we mentioned.
Sorcha Hume also referenced the minutes from last meeting which talked a lot about how the time for private meetings was over and the want to get media involved and do something publicly.
They cause discomfort, pain and can hinder normal activity. Surgery is not always necessary, and hernias don’t always get worse – people can opt to live with them.
In a pandemic of an infectious virus, when we are trying to keep the virus under control, we can bear only so much normal activity that brings people together without the virus then getting out of control.
However, like Emma Roddick, if we do not get to where we need to be and we do not get as far as we need to go, I will seek to bring my amendments back at stage 3.