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I hope that it will help communities to have more of a voice in future. Like Mary Scanlon, I think that the evidence taking has been a useful exercise, as it has brought clarity.
We must also be clear that, in the example that Mary Scanlon gives of a church minister being a charity trustee, the church minister also has a number of other roles.
The principle is acceptable, but not the 10 years. Thank you to Marie Galbraith, Margaret Reid and John McCormick for their evidence, which has been duly noted and will be taken account of.
You have mentioned a handful of issues. That is a typical Mary Scanlon question. The first key point about community plans is that they set out explicit commitments over the short and medium term.
Have you received an indication that that will not happen? We approached Mary Mulligan in May 2000. She said that the committee had been busy; we respect that.