Sentences with phrase «number of government reform»

A number of government reform advocates came out in favor of the legislation including Common Cause New York, EffectiveNY, Reinvent Albany, and Demos, among others.

A number of government reform groups decided in the end to oppose holding a convention 20 years ago.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie opposes the idea of a constitutional convention while a number of government reform groups see it as the best chance to enact ethics and other reforms.

Not exact matches

The Canada Pension Plan Act says that once a sufficient number of provincial governments have indicated support, the federal government can move forward and lock in the reform with an Order in Council — no new Parliamentary debate or legislation is required.

The state government has invited the public to have a say on red tape reform through its #ShredTheRed campaign, while highlighting a number of efficiency improvements in the transport sector.

That's why an increasing number of voices on both sides of the political spectrum have been pressing for additional reforms that would reduce the chances that the federal government will have to step in to save another big, dumb bank.

Meanwhile, a number of EM governments are implementing reforms that could help spur growth, and lower and stable oil prices may benefit oil importers in the emerging world.

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbandry.

The bill implements a substantial number of the competition law reforms recommended by the independent Harper Competition policy review and agreed to by the government in its response to the review.

In addition, the Productivity Commission's review was also required by clause 8.1 of the 2006 Council of Australian Government's (COAG) Competition and Infrastructure Reform Agreement (CIRA) which called for a five year review of a number of the agreement's operation and terms.

The topic «Making Government Work Better for You» (p. 47) emphasizes cost - cutting, online services and transparency, but then slips in the party's plan to reduce the number of MPs to 600, the implementation of boundary reforms and EVEL.

A number of non-fiscal measure are a range of good government reforms including same - day registration, early voting, closing the LLC loophole and oversight of economic development contracts.

This is because in its period of 13 years in Government it only produced a number of limited and sometimes confusing reforms in these areas.

At the same time, the number of jobs have not recovered to pre-recession levels, regulatory reform is being implemented at a sluggish pace and the state and city governments are increasingly relying on the revenue generated by Wall Street.

The council says it stopped using Boundary House to temporarily house some of its homeless families due to the shortage of affordable move - on accommodation in that area, and points out that the government's welfare reforms have led to an increasing number of properties being unavailable to those on housing benefit.

Susan Lerner, with the government reform group Common Cause, said the case raises a number of questions, including why the investigation took so long.

The number of things done by government could be one measure (such as the number of tax returns or passport applications processed, or the number of prisoners in the criminal justice system) but how should we measure how well those functions are carried out, and how should we separate the effects of government reforms from those of technological and societal changes?

That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.

«The government has, in the last decade, pushed through an incredible number of educational reforms.

He also launched a sustained attack on the Tories, claiming that the Government is «gerrymandering the electoral system» by pursuing boundary reforms and reducing the number of parliamentary seats.

Wilson's government was responsible for a number of sweeping social and educational reforms under the leadership of Home Secretary Roy Jenkins such as the abolishment of the death penalty in 1964, the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality (initially only for men aged 21 or over, and only in England and Wales) in 1967 and the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968.

The 40 - plus reform proposals received a mixed reaction from elected officials and good government advocates, but still indicate a number of changes that many have been advocating for years.

«We continue to have a number of concerns about the government's reforms, issues which we believe may damage the NHS or limit the care we are able to provide for our patients.

Jeremy M. Creelan, who headed up a number of reform initiatives for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has been named a visiting fellow of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government where he will focus on reform and social justice issues.

19 July 2007: Jack Straw, in his new position of justice secretary in the cabinet of Gordon Brown, insists the government is determined to proceed with Lords reform and that the powers of the chamber, the method of election, financial packages and the number of members will (yet again) be discussed by a cross-party working group.

Shadow Business Secretary Angela Eagle said that the British Government was among a number of countries to block reform to the EU's trade defence instruments.

Nonetheless, the burden of compromise fell heaviest on the Liberal Democrats; and within the Programme for Government coalition agreement a significant number of their flagship policies were diluted (e.g. electoral reform), forestalled (e.g. House of Lords reform) or disregarded entirely (e.g. UK - wide federalism).

New York's two - year - old Voluntary Defined Contribution (VDC) retirement plan — the most significant structural reform in Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2012 Tier 6 pension legislation — is shaping up as a popular alternative among the relatively small number of government employees eligible to sign up for it.

Mr. Kofi Osei - Ameyaw, Director - General and the Board of NLA constituted by President Akufo - Addo's Government have done so well within the few months in office to achieved a number of unprecedented reforms and great innovations at the NLA which honestly deserves commendations.

The government has announced that as part of its educational reform initiatives, it is investing in the expansion of tertiary institutions to absorb the high numbers of entrants that are likely to emerge from second - cycle institutions following the introduction of the Free SHS policy.

On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child poverty.

Government reform groups say there are a number of loopholes in New York's campaign finance regulations, and that LLC's, or Limited Liability Corporations, are part of the problem.

Beginning in 2014 — and that's not as far off as it may seem — New York expects a big increase in the number of people who qualify for government health care under the federal health care reform law.

In 2013 the Lord Speaker suggested that «if we don't reform and shrink our numbers, the Lords will collapse under its own weight»; last year she pointed out that debates are «coming under increasing time pressure as more members wish to speak, all to the detriment of our ability to hold the government to account» (pay wall).

Forefront at the problems that shall consume Nigeria is the unjust political structure in which corenorth was assigned excess number of states and local government areas, through which it produces excess number of legislators that spurn political reforms that do not yield more political benefits for the corenorth.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

The need for some sort of effort to reform the academic system in France became apparent in 2003, when the government announced a reduction in the number of permanent research positions and the creation of more short - term contracts.

A growing number of scholars had urged the government to reform the rules, introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population growth spiraling out of control, but now regarded as outdated and responsible for shrinking China's labor pool.

The new government established a number of popular reforms and social programmes, including the National Literacy Crusade (the Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetizacion).

Among the reforms that former science minister Daniel Funeriu passed under the previous, Democratic Liberal Party government was the recruitment of a large number of foreign - based Romanian scientists to sit on CNATDCU for the validation of doctoral theses and scientific titles.

The government's apprenticeship reforms have been through an often tricky five - year period of gestation but we are now seeing numbers increase with accompanying improvements in the quality of the training.

Fallout from the public spending scandal in the southern California community of Bell has resulted in a number of bills passing out of the Legislature during the last days of session aimed at reforming pensions and salaries of government officials.

The government is at pains to say that the grammar proposal will be part of a wider reform, only one of many measures to maximise the number of good school places.

Her lobbying efforts have led the German government to stop or modify a number of such projects and have led to increased public awareness on the need to reform German aid policies.

The Scottish Government has established a number of working groups to explore the key themes further and hopes to publish a White Paper outlining the proposed reforms before the end of the year.

Australia is experiencing an active period of legislative reform covering white collar crime, which is likely to continue into the next 12 - 18 months as a number of important pieces of proposed legislation are debated and introduced by the Federal Government.

The MOJ appeared also to accept that the government could have predicted the impact that legal costs reforms were going to have on the number of claims and claimant legal costs, but indicated that it had now taken action to address some of those issues.

In addition to my fee earning responsibilities, I have also run in depth training masterclasses for a number of local West Midlands NHS Trusts on the legal aspects of Midwifery, Obstetrics and Neurosurgery and have been responsible for the firm's response to government consultation on both the Jackson reforms and the discount rate.

There are a number of statutory exceptions to the principle of identification, and the government is currently examining the case for reform of the law on corporate liability for economic crime.