Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas, Chair of the National Assembly's cross-party Autism Group, says the Assembly Government had long promised that specific funding would accompany the strategy.
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But at least there is now a new focus and the two most difficult subjects have been tackled, the Northern Ireland assembly and cross-border arrangements.
It is understood the decision to rearrange meetings was taken by the assembly's cross-party business committee.
Spokespeople for both parties confirmed their members would not cross picket lines at the assembly this week.
Elected Labour AM for Cardiff West in 2011, he was previously chairman of the assembly's cross-party health and social care committee.
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Mr Drakeford, elected Labour AM for Cardiff West in 2011, was previously chairman of the assembly's cross-party health and social care committee.
And he is no stranger to the intricacies of the health service - prior to his promotion he was the chairman of the assembly's cross-party health committee.
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Labour Peer Lord Ivor Richard, Chair of a Cross Party Commission that reviewed Assembly powers in 2004 also warns that the mechanism, known in Parliamentary language as "Henry VIII powers" will "raise a few eyebrows" in the upper house.
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But all this will only happen if there is cross-party consensus in the Assembly.
The petition of concern requires 30 or more signatures and triggers a cross-community vote in the assembly.
Cross-party groups in the assembly include AMs from at least three parties, and can include other members from outside the assembly, related to its activities.
Now unionists at Stormont are calling for the Union flag to be flown 365 days a year over Parliament Buildings - a proposal that seems destined to divide the cross-party commission that manages the Assembly building.
And it will not just be over the big, predictable issues such as the decommissioning of paramilitaries' weapons or the powers of the cross-border bodies in which the assembly's leaders will sit alongside ministers from the Irish Republic.
The Alliance leader was appointed to the justice post in April 2010, after securing cross-community backing from DUP and Sinn Fein assembly members.
The Bill, which has cross-party support, allows the Northern Ireland Assembly to delegate powers to set the salaries and allowances of its 108 members to an outside body.
Committees have been described as the "engine room" of Assembly scrutiny and for weeks now, the cross-party Business Committee has been locked in discussions about their future structure.
The 65-page document, signed in Belfast in 1998, led to the Northern Ireland assembly and executive being set up, new cross-border institutions involving the Irish Republic and a body linking devolved assemblies across the UK with Westminster and Dublin.
The Alliance Party redesignated themselves as Unionists to provide Trimble with the cross-party votes he required under the rules of the Assembly.
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Carwyn Jones AM said that there was cross-party consensus amongst the Welsh parties that the formula which calculates the amount of money the assembly receives from the UK parliament needed changing.
An assembly amendment which would have banned abortions being performed by private clinics has failed to win sufficient cross-community support.
The cross-party Silk Commission is taking evidence for its second report which will look at the scope of the assembly's powers.
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As the National Assembly holds its first session of the new year later on Monday, the MQM is expected to cross the aisle to the opposition benches.
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