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Many housing associations do a lot of work for the private sector. They are at the front line—getting the work together, dealing with the lack of tenement law and working through the grant system.
A good example of the kind of complaint that the tribunal might deal with is when the last bus of the evening fails to show up or leaves early and the traveller has to get a taxi in order to complete their journey.
Could there be a role in that process for business managers, who are linked to parties but whose job it is to ensure that the business of the Parliament gets done? Ownership is important.We could have an interesting discussion about the subsidiarity issue to which John McAllion referred.
I would hate to think that a first-time offender who had not paid their television licence would get six months in prison. There is a lot of emotion about this issue.
I know that work is being done, but is it too late to get the HSE's views? That is a matter for the Health and Community Care Committee, which is pursuing the substance of the petition.
Members of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee expressed some frustration that they were not getting the necessary breadth of evidence and that they did not have time.
That guidance would therefore not appear in the bill, but Mr Gallie has drawn attention to the importance of getting that right for communal purchases as well as for individual purchases.