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I am keen to ensure that that aspect of SNH's case is properly taken into account. We need to understand potential benefits, but we also need to determine whether there might be negative implications.
If they have been unable to demonstrate that in the preceding five-year term, we would take that into account. So it is up to the part-time sheriff, and is not a case of him or her being sidelined by the sheriff principal?
The commissioner will also make an annual report to ministers, who will lay the report before Parliament after considering whether to exclude any material in the public interest.
We have commented elsewhere in the report on the matter by saying that the accounts that are subject to audit do not make transparent those additional allocations.
I do not think that the water commissioner is as accountable as he should be. As water is still in the public sector, his is one of the sectors in which I would like much more accountability and the ability to refer complaints to the ombudsman.
When we took evidence from the minister on individual learning accounts, we raised the issue of access and we talked about child care and travel costs.