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Official Report
Meeting date:
28 November 2005
To put the matter in context, I note that our latest version of the noise and vibration policy, dated November 2005, sets out the limit at which options for noise mitigation will start to be considered.
Because of the combination of restrictive practices that are in place, the latest of which is the working time directive, every minute of our day is valuable.
The timetable will be tight.You are all members of political parties, and I would have thought that you would want a new system done and dusted and up and running by October, November or December—at the latest—of the year preceding the election.
You have been chief executive for 18 months or so, and you came in as a new broom with new ideas. However, when I look at the submission, I do not see too many new ideas.
Would it not be better to try to enforce the current law before embarking on raising the age for buying tobacco? Raising the age for buying tobacco is a matter for the Parliament and the Executive more generally, rather than for me as the Lord Advocate.