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The benefits can be seen in our streets and communities every day. We have new schools, new technology, new information technology, new access to computers for schoolchildren, new sports facilities for schools and new hospitals.
I remind members that next Monday we will visit HMP Greenock and I think that Donald Gorrie, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton and I are going to visit a young offenders project in Inverclyde.
This morning, the Health and Community Care Committee had an interesting visit to the Beatson oncology centre departments in the Western infirmary in Glasgow and at the new site at Gartnavel royal hospital.
You assured us that work was being done to recruit new markers. During our visits to Dalkeith and Glasgow, we were given some indication of the increase in the number of markers.
In the latter case, a reporter and small groups making visits are helpful. However, when a committee is acting in a judicial capacity and a visit takes place, all committee members should participate.
Some of what I want to ask about has already been discussed. There are difficulties. Giving a new contract and a new financial settlement does not necessarily increase the number of consultants that we have.
I wish to raise the issue of access for disabled people in the present and the new parliamentary settings. I have raised this matter in the chamber twice, as there are a number of concerns about the facilities for disabled people at present and in the new building.