What is to be done to deal with even This Short Term Crisis in manpower?
The Minister for Economic Affairs, when speaking on the Address, drew the distinction between the Short Term Crisis which we are facing now and the long-term difficulties which are stretching out beyond.
So one could go on, showing how, if this is a Short Term Crisis which is encountering us, we can leave it as far as possible to the ordinary laws of supply and demand, and can afford to turn aside from the difficult problems of learning how to introduce more effective positive controls.
The irony is that, in last year's Finance Bill debates, we expressly allowed reliefs of this kind to be continued to 1968, so this withdrawing of relief has not been effective during the Short Term Crisis period and will become effective only in the long term.
There is a Crisis in the Short Term and in the long term.
Let us go into the resolution of the Present Short Term Crisis and build up and enlarge the Community budget thereafter with equanimity and enthusiasm, because we know that the United Kingdom will benefit substantially from spending money in other sectors where budgets are held back artificially by the unreality of maintaining the own resources limit, which is getting increasingly out of date.
(h) Leave to care for sick children Yes Up to 3 days special leave available for staff to cope with a Short Term Crisis.
With such dialogue, there may be a glimmer of hope that we can make genuine progress in a partnership that will secure the interests of those farmers in dire financial Crisis in the Short Term, and the interests of the countryside that we all love in the long term, in Wales and throughout the United Kingdom.
We have heard from Labour Members - not least the hon. Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt) - a catalogue of complacency, in the face of the Worst Short Term Crisis that the NHS has faced in living memory and against a backdrop of growing discontent with the state of our health system overall.
The Government's long trek to reducing public expenditure is the correct and prudent approach, unlike the approach that our friends in the Conservative party would rush to and which would create a deeper hole and Crisis in the Short Term.
Reablement perhaps focuses more on getting people over the Immediate Short Term Crisis.