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Some of those practical challenges might be to do with the availability of money. There may not be enough money to afford all the social care packages that we would want to afford at the local level because resources may be tied up in the more acute hospital settings.
Do you agree that, if we do not know the potential outcomes in relation to improvements—or not, as the case may be—from having a new commissioner, the exercise is two dimensional?
Given the scale of some of the developments, it may not be possible to achieve that, and mitigations may have to take place in other parts of the marine environment or our coastline.
As soon as a Public Bill (i.e. a Government, Committee or Member’s Bill) has completed Stage 1, amendments for consideration at Stage 2 may be lodged; and as soon as Stage 2 is completed, amendments for Stage 3 consideration may be lodged.
As colleagues have no further questions, I thank the minister and his officials very much for their attendance. The committee may follow up by letter with any additional questions stemming from the session.