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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Or workless. They are not workless, because they are not able to work. They are doing other things. Elizabeth Howlett AM: You have hit on a bête noire of mine, I must say, because I think we have marginalised and done very badly by a whole group of youngsters leaving schools who have manual skills and do not get training. There is nothing disrespectful about saying you are a manual worker. It is an essential element in our life and, in fact, Poles are keeping the construction industry going. You talked about people coming from the Asian continent with great...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

: Indeed, but I think someone should ask well what would be the point in trying to get into work people who are long-term sick and disabled, who have obviously taken themselves out of work because they cannot work? What is the point of getting students into work when they are there to be studying and what is the point in spending a lot of resources on getting people to work who have chosen not to work because they are carers at home or indeed, as I have just said, there is a percentage of women who choose not to...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

That sounds a pretty critical job actually.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Have you got somebody in mind?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

A very last quick question. I do not think you can probably answer it now so I wonder whether it is something you could perhaps supply us with later on but it would be great to have a staffing structure both within LOCOG but also how you relate out to all the other organisations. Is that something you can supply us with just so that I can look at it and then understand it?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

That actually jumps to my next question. I was going to say, do you have any problems when you think you have got the right person in mind and they do not want to come and do the job and do you have contingency plans when somebody turns you down? But what you are saying is that that has not happened.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

How far down the track are you to finding the right people?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I think it sounds sensible to get the guy in charge of the funding in first and I am pleased to hear that that was a top priority. Is there a strategy therefore that you had an idea about which one you needed to go to next and you had a strategy to follow, each post following the other one?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

What are the big targets left to fill and are you on track in terms of timing?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

So the expertise is really coming from the IOC as far as you are concerned?