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I will be happy to meet the acting First Minister on behalf of the committee on that issue. I also get the impression from the committee that we should be putting pen to paper again to relate how we feel about the situation.
If the issue is the conduct of an individual and whether that individual should have been disciplined, that is not something that the ombudsman would be likely to get involved in. If the issue is valuations, there is an appeal system.No major issue arises that would result in the committee wanting to amend legislation.
Other issues are more complex, and would involve the amendment of legislation, but nothing is insuperable if we are determined.We are engaged in a political debate about the purpose of the census, and we should resist the temptation to get bogged down in the technicalities of any amendment.
Although we have reduced the number of targets by getting the Executive to strip out many of the process targets, my point is that, as you said earlier, a priority target is attached to almost every level 2 priority in the portfolio budgets.
This is an altogether unsatisfactory state of affairs, given that this committee's work has been delayed for getting on for five months as a result of the initial failure to notify 130 people and this further failure—as far as we are aware at this stage—to notify one property owner.