He believes that a devolved administration in Northern Ireland could be formed without republicans.
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He used the example of council tax benefit, which the devolved administration has acquired responsibility for.
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Self-evidently, the blame cannot be laid entirely at the door of a devolved administration.
It's reminder that the Welsh government isn't the only devolved administration looking for more say on taxation.
Northern Ireland's devolved administration was suspended last October amid allegations of IRA intelligence gathering in the Stormont government.
If the Ulster Unionists stay out of the government, then the goal of devolved administration will in effect disappear.
He will lead a commission examining constitutional issues, focussing on the union and looking at the next phase for the devolved administration.
The devolved administration already has powers over schemes up to 50MW and Welsh government ministers have called for further powers up to 100MW to be devolved.
The SNP and Plaid Cymru tabled a joint Commons motion condemning the government for threatening to cut devolved administration budgets if they do not accept the pension settlement.
In a statement the Department for Regional Development said the secretary of state has ruled out privatisation under direct rule and this will be up to the devolved administration to decide.
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He said it begins to put Wales in an international context and points out that as a nation it is the only devolved administration that does not have "proper tax varying powers".
Fianna Fail was in power in the Republic continuously from 1997 to 2011, and was heavily involved in the Good Friday Agreement negotiations which helped to set up Northern Ireland's devolved administration at Stormont.
The devolved administration would then repay the loan, but the Welsh government said it had no plans to impose tolls on any roads and that the idea had not been discussed with the UK government.
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In Scotland, the devolved administration has already tightened dog-control legislation, enabling enforcement officers to impose sanctions on the owners of out-of-control dogs and extending the criminal law on dog control to cover attacks taking place on private property.
The challenge for the recently established devolved administration will be to manage the next phase of this evolution from an economy heavily dependent on traditional 'low value added' businesses, to one that will be increasingly reliant on knowledge based and services industries.
The application requires the endorsement of the relevant local stakeholders as well as the UK MAB Committee, the Minister for the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs or the Minister for environment in the devolved administration, before being sent by Defra to the UK Permanent Delegation to UNESCO in Paris.
Dundee West MP Jim McGovern said the Scottish government pledge fell short of those made by the devolved administration in Wales, which has committed to cover up to 75% of the wage costs for a company, or 100% for a public body, who opts to take on a former Remploy employee for up to four years.
The PSNI has done for policing what the devolved Belfast administration, which combines unionist and republican ministers in coalition, has done for politics.
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He told MPs that responsibility for the administration of devolved elections ultimately lay with the UK government and ministers would do all they could to ensure the "smooth running" of the elections.
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She is an ardent advocate for a slimmer administration, with power devolved to units closer to residents.
The LCO would give the assembly the powers to restrict or abolish the rights of tenants to buy their council homes, but the Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration has said that these should not be devolved in full.
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