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We would want fairly stringent hurdles to be built in to ensure that human resources issues are well covered in the pre-tender qualification stages. Social dumping is a big issue for seafarers.
Amendment 57 is grouped with amendments 82, 46, 96, 97, 83, 47, 84, 98, 99, 100, 85, 86, 48, 87 and 88. Various amendments will be pre-empted if others are agreed to, but I will not bore the committee by saying what they are.
The committee has a good record of taking a strategic view of issues such as this. If we pre-empted the consultation process, we would send completely the wrong message to health boards.
A witness might be called and a solicitor might have to deal with all sorts of situations that were not foreseen in pre-trial preparations. That would be unusual, but it should be covered.
I point out that if amendment 72 is agreed to, I will not be able to call amendment 18, which will have been pre-empted. In addition, amendment 80 pre-empts amendment 24.
If amendment 132 is agreed to, I will not be able to call amendments 133, 139, 17, 18 and 19, due to pre-emption. If amendment 133 is agreed to, I will not be able to call amendment 139, again due to pre-emption.
We based our estimates on what we know of the processes that councils will have to go through, such as consultation, pre-planning and post-march debriefing.