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Items in Private Welcome to this meeting of the Social Justice Committee. I trust that everyone managed to get here safely.Item 1 is to agree to take item 6 in private, as we will consider our response to Communities Against Poverty's recommendations on community representation and social inclusion partnerships.
There must be a balancing act between having turgid bills that are 50 pages long, which slow down the Executive because it cannot get through its legislative programme while Parliament meets for days on end to discuss matters, and the right of Opposition and other members of Parliament to scrutinise proposed legislation and follow-up procedures.
Such good performance might be good for sellers who are getting a windfall gain when they sell their house—an untaxed windfall gain, I might add—but it leads to the gap between the rungs on the property ladder getting wider and wider.
I once hosted a meeting of CAM practitioners, at which Helen Eadie was an active participant. There is a big access problem and a big research problem.
My interest is in ensuring that we drive forward our programme of capital investment in better transport infrastructure. We must get things done and we must get projects delivered on time and to budget.
For the reasons that I have explained, it would be wrong of me to get involved in the detailed figures in it, but I have been given information about discrepancies between the report and the official statistics.
If companies do not deliver those conditions, they should not be able to get up and walk away. That should apply to inward investments and indigenous companies.