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Ultimately, we will secure the services for the future. As the First Minister knows, we have been locked into this tendering process for some five years.
The decision is the right one and it will secure a strong future, not just for the health service and for those who work in it, but for the mothers and children who will use the service in the years to come.
We have a strong vision that Scotland should host the Commonwealth games at some stage in the near future. However, if we are to do that, unlike in 1986 we will do it properly, we will do it well and we will make Scotland proud.
Before we get ourselves totally tied up in knots about how the grammar could or should be expressed in that paragraph, perhaps the minister should tell us clearly what the intent of the sentence actually is, so that when people who are not sure how they should interpret the punctuation ask in the future what is meant they will be able to find out.
Do you want members to make suggestions at this meeting or do you want us to e-mail them to you for future reference? I would prefer members to e-mail their suggestions.If members have no more comments, I ask them to agree to the recommendations.
We should support Lord Fraser in his attempts to ensure that he gets all the facts into his report and that he gets the right analysis that allows us to learn the right lessons for the future. He continues to have my full support in trying to achieve that.
Looking ahead to the sift documents, I see that there is a paper that seems to be on a very similar subject: COM(2003) 787 final, which is entitled "Green paper on the future of rules of origin in preferential trade arrangements".
I seek the committee's agreement to follow Jackie Baillie's suggestion to write to the petitioner, advising him that he must, in future, adhere to the guidance on petitions.