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I note that the petition uses the word "urgent", so it would be good to get the Executive's answer to the funding question at the same time as its response to the rest.
Please note that you should not actually move the other amendments at that stageāand if you are following this, you are brighter than I thought you were. It gets confusing when I read it out, but it will get easier as we go through it.
I can see merit in the idea, but in the interests of getting the matter moving quickly, might not it be helpful for the clerk to write a paper that would encapsulate the outstanding issues?
On the issue drifting, I think that we were all unhappy about how long it took to get the minister to come to the table, although that was a matter of matching her diary with the dates of our meetings.