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We need to review fundamentally the materials that we use and how we live our lives. Such a review will be driven not only by forthcoming European directives, but by existing directives that have not been fully implemented yet, such as directives on packaging or on waste electronic equipment.
First, it is unacceptable to have more than 500 older people—in effect, enough for a district general hospital—in a place where they should not be living. That is just wrong, as well as economically inefficient.
Those objectives were to build a network and architecture that could go live; to provide learning opportunities; and to get into communities and become part of the way people live.
We hate to see unemployment in this country, but we are talking about people's lives. People's lives and health are sometimes more important than their jobs.