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The Executive set up an all-party working group to examine aspects of sectarian behaviour and the group produced a lot of very sensible recommendations.
As I said in my answer to Helen Eadie's initial question, one of the pieces of work that is being done, on which a report will be produced before next May, is on the options for a replacement crossing, covering type, form and location.
Irene Oldfather acknowledged that the House of Lords produces many interesting reports. It is a shame that there will be no response to the inquiry from the Executive.
I presume that a gap will exist until the Executive produces a new statutory instrument, which is what will have to happen, during which period the rules that we are discussing will be in force and we will still have the problem.
I have in my hands an analysis of my SNP leadership election manifesto, which the First Minister's office has produced. The analysis suggests pre-empting the SNP's plans to cut business tax, and the First Minister's office is so enamoured of our plan for the citizen's pension that it suggests that the Secretary of State for Scotland's right-hand man, Iain G...
There is also an issue about giving members the space to consider thoroughly whether they want to lodge amendments, otherwise we could end up in circumstances whereby organisations that are geared up to produce amendments have more sway at the amendment stage than we might want, simply because it is easier to take an amendment off the shelf than to produce one oneself.