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It is up to the Executive to find out how to obtain that power. Substitutes in extra time have been known to score winning goals and change the situation.
She states her arguments clearly, but there is not sufficient extra information to instigate an inquiry.An inquiry would serve little purpose in this case.
Ms Main has highlighted a serious problem and one can only imagine the extra stress that was caused to Ms Main by collecting 1,200 signatures and campaigning on the issue.
That was why I wanted to ask whether the funds will go to the health and education budgets. Will the special grant cover the extra expenditure that councils have incurred on health or education?
I repeat: we are investing heavily in the NHS, with £1.8 billion extra over three years; we are recruiting more manpower into the service; and we are building quality environments for the staff to work in.
Yes, a good early question for the adviser would be to let him or her look at the proposed timetable alongside our comments. There might be need for an extra meeting to do that. We could perhaps take the adviser's advice on whether there is enough time for us to do what we want to do.
As Mike Rumbles suggests, it is not a case of our taking extra evidence. We are not deciding either to waste or to usefully employ anyone's time by bringing them in front of the committee.