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We are determined to work with NHS boards to get a more consistent pattern across Scotland with regard to access, criteria and waiting lists, but I reiterate the point that the issues are complex.
Rather than quibble and quarrel about who was responsible for what in the past, why cannot we get behind the efforts of our national tourism agency and the local authorities, who are doing their best for the area?
It has also made other significant developments.In all seriousness, I think that there is a real issue about members of the Labour group getting up in the chamber and complaining about efficiency savings that are being reinvested in front-line services when the party that they represent intends to impose £500 million-worth of cuts in the Scottish Government...
I ask the member to advertise to her constituents the many funds that are available and to encourage them to apply, to ensure that her part of the world gets its fair share of that valuable funding.
It's a cultural thing—they just don't get it."There is resistance to the idea of democratisation of the health boards from some members of the existing structure.
Local income tax is important, but we should not be getting into the issue in huge detail—it is just one thing among a host of things that have an impact on the economy.
Some doctors have taken the decision to go elsewhere in the United Kingdom, particularly England, where they can get substantive posts, as opposed to the different, locum appointment for training posts?
There is a strange arrangement for his appointment.Furthermore, we are not sure how the Auditor General relates to the Accounts Commission and why Professor Baillie is chairman of both the Accounts Commission and—I am getting confused already—the board of Audit Scotland.