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Rule 9.3.2 says: "A Bill shall on introduction be accompanied by a Financial Memorandum which shall set out the best estimates of the administrative, compliance and other costs to which the provisions of the Bill would give rise".The Executive might reply that the financial memorandum contains its best estimates, but...
I suggest that the concerns that have been raised and the comments of the Auditor General are best dealt with in that way, rather than through our formally writing to the department yet again.
I inform members that the committee has been invited to strut its stuff on the Lesley Riddoch programme. We shall do so in the best possible taste. I ask members to agree to allow me to have discussions with the programme's producers about suitable ways of best informing the audience of the committee's work.
This committee discussed its work load and agreed a programme of work, which we manage as best we can. Along the way, all sorts of other issues crop up.
That is not legally possible, because it would create two legal definitions. Perhaps it would be best if we left the matter. But we have two legal definitions.
Our amendment, in Dennis Canavan's name, encapsulates the best common elements of the different expressions of opinion on matters affecting international aid.
The Irish academic John Bradley, in his recent Fraser of Allander lecture, compared Ireland with Scotland and said that Scotland had the best documents, but that Ireland had the best strategies and, therefore, the best outcomes.