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If we know in advance that a bill is at stage 3, people can make allowances. We may have to stay on until 7 o'clock, as we have done before, and, if we cannot complete the debate in that time, we may have to schedule another session.
The problem may be common, but its essence differs from city to city, never mind country to country, which may explain why evidence is currently diffuse.
As members will recall, we agreed on 5 December to consider such issues papers in private, as they will greatly assist the committee's discussions but may not reflect our final views. Meeting continued in private until 10:25.
The whole idea of mainstreaming is to make equal opportunities an integral part of every piece of committee work. The Justice 2 Committee may have baulked at the kind of tokenism that suggests that there has to be only a line or two on mainstreaming in an annual report as opposed to continuing work being done on it.