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We require further debate, particularly once the CIO is appointed, to identify how best to respond to breaches of the code. I envisage the code acting more simply, as an overarching code that codifies and modifies how people in public bodies behave and allows them to recognise...
We are encouraging landlords to be involved in the accreditation scheme and the bill has the letting code in reserve, which could address the issues that you mention, if the code meets the committee's approval.
I am pleased to receive the minister's assurance, not just about the code of practice, but about the fact that the Executive will monitor the approach.
If it is a matter for anyone, it is a matter for the First Minister, as well as for the ministerial code. In relation to Mrs MacDonald's request, I am not persuaded to set aside the business that Parliament has decided for today.
However, I have reservations about the introduction of a prescriptive code that could be used by people to argue that their complaint was not considered properly.
Section 23 covers the issuing of a code of practice and directions. The points that we have to raise on this section, which relate to the use of codes of practice in place of legislation, and to difficulties that arise from that, are similar to some that we have raised on previous occasions.