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The funding will begin to fill the gaps. It is clear that 46 per cent extra in funding will help and will widen to every local authority the potential to have input into such services.
We have allocated until 4.30 for questions so, having resumed three minutes early, we have found ourselves some extra minutes. I hope that, at the end of the 53 minutes, the minister feels that the extra three minutes have been used well.
Given that any money will come from the Parliament and not the Executive, I have not yet received any clarification of why provision should be made for people to prepare accounts and have those accounts updated as well as for extra expenses to be paid. If the Executive wants to make available extra money, that is fin...
It is possible to get extra time without there being provision in standing orders.However, standing orders should be amended on the timescales between each stage.