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They felt that they were involved in the bills process at the pre-legislative stage, but they did not realise that they had a chance to contribute when bills went to stage 2.
For example, if the case involved homeless young people, the commissioner might want to inspect hostels, houses in multiple occupation and so on, in order to establish their quality. The same principle would apply to pre-school education establishments or after-school clubs that were run by a particular organisation, and it would apply to public, voluntary ...
As I said, the fact that the board is at arm's length from the Government of the Welsh Assembly—or the Secretary of State for Wales in pre-devolution days—has merits. There are boards in most other areas of public life, whatever people's views on quangos—I still use that word because I am old enough to know what it means and what it implies to many people.
If we ask for a formal referral, the petition becomes part of the evidence that we consider as part of our review. My remarks have been pre-empted. I wanted to speak in support of the recommendation that we seek a formal referral.
If amendment 1 is agreed to, amendments 158, 159, 42, 118 and 160 will be pre-empted. The large number of amendments cover an important aspect of the bill, so I will allow a bit of time for debate to enable all those who wish to speak to do so.
I think that the committee thought the same about the 12-month report as the minister did.As I said at the beginning that I would regard the field of questioning as flexible, I will mention that the minister will be aware that later in the year we will consider the formula for question time in Parliament. I do not want to pre-empt that discussion, but does ...
The area's economy has a serious problem for the foreseeable future.The minister referred to Scottish Enterprise and HIE having input to tomorrow's statement. I do not want to pre-empt that statement, but I was not encouraged by my meeting last week with the chief executive of Scottish Enterprise.