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Given the challenges that we face in the health service, we need to look to ourselves. I point out that it is the minister who has invited us to reopen the issue.
I would be happy to go along with recommendation a) that we ask for a paper on the legal position. Phil Gallie has made the point that we had better have that paper before we consider taking evidence.
In the response to the consultation, several authorities and respondents raised issues about administrative costs, so we thought that it might be useful if we did our best to try to calculate those costs.
Whether the issuing of fiscal fines for more serious offences is a pressure point, it seems that, given that that has already been raised in the public domain, we may have to consider it to be a pressure point in the system, albeit a sensitive one.
The issue seems to have broadened out. I take Johann Lamont's point—I do not think that we can go into more detail on this particular petition than we have done on others.
I thought that it would be useful to bring that point to the committee's attention.The other two points that I will concentrate on are the obvious ones.