Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill

I hope that the Minister, in putting the legislation together, will consider the other side of the argument. When I was a council leader, we had a file labelled ““N.U.T.T.E.R.””. There were vexatious individuals who used to plague the local authority for absolutely everything. The local authority has to be in a position to say no and, if the individual is persistent, to say no firmly once and for all.