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For example, the difference in regulation for individual learning accounts has reduced the ability of people who might want to take college courses—retired people or whoever—to take short-term college courses.
However, although charges amount to only 4 per cent of the total cost of community care, that 4 per cent can account for 100 per cent of the disposable income of disabled people or their carers.
However, when you have to balance the accounts at the end of a given period, the reality is that you look first and foremost to your biggest cost—I know that a number of the people in the room will be employers in their own right.
Does the minister agree with Ban Ki-moon and many others that those responsible should be held to account and should perhaps be sent before the International Criminal Court?
Family circumstances have changed and the lead committee should take that into account. I am sure that it will. We might return to a similar point in considering another instrument.
My concern is that although bullying and harassment cannot be taken into account by councillors who are making the decisions, the absence of objections could have a significant effect.