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In France, people get e-mail and text alerts that say that blood donations can be taken at a particular place, date and time. People are therefore kept up to date.
We have dialogue with the Council of Mortgage Lenders—in fact, I was at a dinner last week at which the CML was present—although it focuses much more on access to finance to buy houses in the first place.On retail lending, if the banks do not start to listen to what many people have been asking of them over a number of years, they will simply be bypassed.
The FAI has been set up and was due to start in July but, because of issues with the parties in terms of taking evidence, there is now some doubt over whether it will proceed on its scheduled date. That is quite the norm for complicated FAIs.
Do you have any thoughts on how that could best be done in the context of the publication of meeting dates, agendas and so on, given that that clearly involves a Government-to-Government relationship?
I have cases at the moment where all the evidence is ready to be heard by the court but the proof dates are off into late 2015, simply because the court does not have the capacity to hear those cases.