Earlier Finance Minister Sue Essex had said there was no disagreement on the principle of the motion, and the assembly government was already committed to looking at ways of speeding up the process.

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The finance and enterprise committees brought a joint motion on supporting in principle the devolution of corporation tax powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, on 28 June 2011.

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However the chair Mike German, said that the argument was not what the Assembly would do with the powers, but the principle of whether they should have the powers at all.

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Adnan Pachachi, this month's president of the U.S.-appointed Governing Council, said he backs direct elections in principle but indicated the caucus-elected assembly, or some variation of this plan, would be more realistic in view of the June deadline.

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The South East England Regional Assembly (Seera) has agreed in principle to a total of 578, 000 new homes for Oxfordshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire in the next 20 years.

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