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Is building the capacity to deliver the bill an issue? If we create too many extra organisations at the start, we might make it more difficult for the system to start and to deliver on our objectives.
Our only comment was that the proposals should happen in the least bureaucratic way possible so that extra expense will not be incurred. Martyn Evans asked why the requirement does not extend to existing list members.
Since the Executive came to power, the partnership has delivered extra police on our streets. We are going further: we have also significantly increased funding for police services.
If someone sees an increased number of vehicles, they think that there must be increased noise, but a few extra vehicles do not produce a big increase in noise.
The snow melts in July.Our long winter is an extra cost. Someone on a rangeland in a pampas would have a different cost structure and a different break-even price.
It needs a culture change to reassess how it spends its money but we do not think that it needs large amounts of extra money over and above what it currently receives.
If special measures are introduced, they will be seen as an add-on, as an extra and as something odd that the jury will immediately be suspicious about.
The schools that were involved in the project made the changes by arranging for teachers to be trained in physical education, investing in extra equipment and hiring and training play assistants.
People on low incomes find it easier to pay things off in small amounts.We may want to encourage people to give money to a credit union so that they can build up a little fund to fall back on, but people often do not have any extra left over to allow them to do that.