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Normal service gradually resuming

After quite a bit of a struggle with unreliable technology we finally got most things to work this morning. We even have the casework system running on the computers supplied by the Parliamentary Communications Department. We thought we would take an additional step to try using different types of paper in different trays. Lo and behold we find the printers have been configured to be controlled in Spanish. Is there some kind of hidden message here I wonder. It is a sign of the development of the European Union?

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