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Tribunal membership
The Committee report recognises that power to temporarily authorise existing judges to sit on tribunals is not new, and is necessary in order to address capacity issues in Scottish tribunals.
However, the failure to meet the internationally set targets in the Rio Convention, to preserve biodiversity, led to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity setting new targets for 2020 ("the Aichi Targets") in 2010.
There is also a quality issue, because they will not be rated very highly when they are visited. The matter is difficult; Epilepsy Scotland says that it will champion the new managed clinical networks and is enthusiastic about them, but highlights the impotence of the SIGN guidelines.
Will the First Minister accept my invitation to visit one of the schools in my constituency that fared badly in the school league tables to see that there is more to schools than such tables?
I was on holiday during the October break and Robin undertook many visits during that time. However, my researcher, Hugh Raven, stood in for me at the Dunstaffnage meeting.
I get increasingly saddened by the fact that, despite two years since it was delivered 16 MSPs by a new electoral system, the Conservative party still does not have its heart in devolution.
It was agreed that John McAllion should contact the Executive to seek further clarification on a number of points. A reply was received on 26 August. Members are invited to note the response and to consider whether the committee should take any further action in relation to the petition.
The petition called on the Parliament to approve a thorough investigation of the actions of the National Trust for Scotland on its current proposals and policies for Glencoe, which involve the creation of a woodland grant scheme and a new visitor centre at Inverigan. Some committee members visited Glencoe on 2 Octobe...