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I ask you to use your good offices to try to get a response from the Executive, which is clearly in breach of standing orders and is verging on contempt of Parliament.
However, for the time being I intend to bring up the subject on an individual basis at our meetings until we see how we get on with the new procedure—if I can call it that—rather than rule that we will not have private sessions.
The increased use of individualised learning programmes that get the children themselves to check their literacy and numeracy accuracy should also be welcomed.
I hope that the Executive finally gets down to giving a better response than that and perhaps responding to some of the concerns that are raised frequently by the Subordinate Legislation Committee on such technical matters.
Will the minister assure us that he will try to expedite the process of considering the council's structure plan to enable us to get it through before the 40-week period is completed?