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It is apparent that the Government is learning as it goes along. Given that we are living in remarkably unusual times, it was always likely that a further package of measures would be required.
If any serious analysis was done of access by families on low incomes or living in poverty to the rights that the bill will bring, we would find it very uneven indeed.
If a person is seriously disabled and their house is totally inadequate for their needs, they get 75 points. A person who lives in overcrowded conditions with teenage children of the opposite sex sharing a bedroom gets 20 points.
One of the Dundee schools in which we were involved is due to go live today. The public sector, in the form of one of the council's officers, has a seat on our board.
Are you not looking for the Government to find a way to reduce the cost of providing the money, albeit that it will always be rationed? If we lived in an ideal world, the answer would be yes without any qualification or reservation, but we do not live in that world.
We must take into account the fact that the judiciary serves our communities and that judges do not live in a vacuum. It is important that we have an overall balance.
The evidence that you heard last week was, with respect, naive. The Lord President said:"We live in pleasant times. Times may not always be pleasant, however."