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The issue is really to do with gardens. If you live in the leafy suburbs, you will have a garden, but if you live in a high-rise flat, there is little opportunity for gardening.
I am glad to see that two members of the press are covering the debate, and I hope that they will note that there are members who consistently raise issues that directly affect people's lives. Perhaps they will take the opportunity to note that there is a lot more than trivia going on in the chamber.
At the time, there was a strange, eerie feeling, and it was a strange, eerie place to live in.Even during those darkest of hours, the talk was of recovery.
Those decisions should not be based on consideration of cost. We are talking about children's lives and those decisions should not be reduced to crude calculations of costs.
I can see what Bruce Crawford is aiming at, but I am a bit worried by the definition in amendment 143:"lives sufficiently close to the premises".People who have approached me about noise and so on have not necessarily lived as close as Bruce Crawford seems to be suggesting.