An increase in teachers' salaries in election year is, of course, as predictable as an increase in National Assistance Board rates, a big Budget hand-out, Or a Crisis immediately the election is over.

One of the less edifying spectacles of the past two days has been the gleeful anticipation of many Opposition Members, waiting for the market to crash, the pound to plummet Or a Crisis to occur.

My Lords, that point was made in the recent report by Mencap, which criticises local authorities for dealing only with the problem of older carers when perhaps one carer has died Or a Crisis point is reached.

How Members should not get me wrong: the Bill does not seek to address failure, Or a Crisis.

The Bill does not seek to address failure, Or a Crisis.

We need sufficient resources and we need them now, Or a Crisis will become an absolute catastrophe.