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Before closing what has been a rapid meeting, I inform members that our next meeting is expected to take place on Tuesday 3 May 2005. Meeting closed at 13:26.
I hope that it will develop and prove a good focal point for continued discussion of British-Irish relations and the development of Scottish-Irish links.
It is appalling that we stand by and talk about this and that but do not talk about what is a life-and-death issue for 1,000 people in the Falkirk area.
I will be as brief as I can. On your first point, when you talked to Colin Fox about speed, you said that 90 per cent of those who are in fatal fires are already dead before the fire brigade is called.
The need for dialogue is emphasised by that comment. The point is well made. I invite Jackie Baillie to wind up the debate and to press or withdraw amendment 105.
Yes, but that would be a matter for the Presiding Officer. I am talking about the time that we set. The whole point of moving to a thematic question time is to try to make question time more meaningful and to get into a subject.