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On the points that Nadia and Roseanna made about funding and training, many young people and teenagers in the Traveller community cannot get work and getting funding and training for them so that they can get work is a job.
It must help people to understand what they are entitled to and how to get it. The distribution formula for funding is wrong—that is a fact of life—and we have to get it right.
We are aware of how difficult it can be for people on low income to get credit, and we are worried about the consequences for them, but we have not had time to get evidence.
Are we making it too difficult for people to get in? It is anecdotal that one must have only A grades to get into medical school, but that does not mean that we will get the best doctors at the end of the course.
Either their bill had met the criteria, in which case they could get NEBU support, or it had not met the criteria, in which case they would get no support.
We therefore felt reasonably comfortable with a relatively short consultation period, especially given the perceived need to get a move on and to get the legislation on to the statute book as soon as possible.