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It concerns the difference between the words “must” and “may”. As she said, under the children’s rights scheme ministers “must”—as opposed to “may”—do certain things.
I was involved in daily meetings with the perm sec’s co-ordinating team, which may or may not have been the same set of meetings that were held three times a week.
As Oisín said, he wants to see his little sister at the weekend, when he is not at school and on Christmas day and her birthday, but there may not be as many staff on duty at those times—there may be a skeleton staff, or there may be a need to use relief workers or whatever—so...
One of the things that we came across again and again was that they were scared of banks—that may or may not be fair, but I think that there is a lot of fairness there—and saw them as predatory.
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