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Unless a pooled budget scheme is set up, certain unacceptable consequences will follow. If budgets are not pooled, there will be a natural tendency for people to defend their own budget.
When that decision was conveyed to us, we had £100,000 in the bank; over the following six weeks, we had to generate £4.4 million out of that £100,000.
Had it been made to the Parliament, the press conference could have followed our debate.Today is the Parliament's third debate on domestic abuse, in addition to the many debates that we have had in the Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
The galling point is that all that follows an election campaign during which people who are now members of the Executive promised to be tough on crime.