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For instance, if a board is, for some reason, sitting doggedly outside e-procurement and knowingly buying a nurse's tunic for £20 when we can get it for £15, I shall deal with that directly.
It is useful to have your comments on the record.I raise a slightly different point. Someone might buy a flat in a tenement in good faith for £X, but later discover outstanding bills for repairs.
To him I would say that we are the people at the sharp end of his proposed legislation and that we have balance sheets to prove what we say about the problems.
Every single one of them said the same thing; they were all singing from the same hymn sheet. We need, therefore, to find out exactly what the Executive's reasons were for deciding not to have an independent review.
Let us ask what prevented inclusion of the provision in that bill and whether it is retrievable. We will ask the adviser and SPICe to produce a briefing for us. Meeting closed at 12:28.
We can pursue that and see whether somebody is still out there.The next issue is to consider whether to seek oral evidence from the minister in advance of the December agriculture and fisheries council, and whether—as we discussed at our away day—we should commission research on fishing stocks from SPICe to summarise the current state of play to inform that...
In the meantime, we could ask the clerk to examine the responses that we have received today and, with SPICe, draw up a checklist of members' concerns that could then be fed into the research.