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I accept that there are problems in a licensing system until folk get into it. However, we must stop the movement of susceptible stock and of the disease organism itself, if there is to be a chance of getting rid of the disease quickly.
I want matters to be reasoned out and not to lead to indiscipline reports. When matters get to that stage, everybody fails—the prisoner fails because he gets punished and we fail because we do not get people to work.
It is better to have the information, regardless of where you get it from, and not to get too hung up at the outset about whether it is worth gathering and whether it is relevant.
If they are working at full capacity and you are getting the best out of them, how can you possibly get them to do more work in more areas, with less back-up but for the same amount of money?
Most of the issues that I wanted to raise have been covered, but I would like to emphasise one point. I hope that we can getactively involved in the Nordic Council, rather than just talk to the other members politely.
I am trying to establish the difference between what an advocate would get from a private client and what they would get from someone claiming legal aid.
If the debate is led by a minister, the minister gets his or her time to speak, the SNP and Conservative spokespeople get roughly the same amount of time, and then everyone else usually gets four minutes each.