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Scottish ParliamentHealth and Community Care CommitteeWednesday 17 November 1999(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 11:26 I thank the Justice and Home Affairs Committee for allowing us to take part in its deliberations with the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing and Professor McLean at short notice.
I was driving at whether the post would be a new function requiring new personnel and new costs or whether similar work is being done just now, although not as comprehensively.
Committees have sometimes consulted at stage 2, but the rule should be that they must consult if significant new proposals are made or if, even though the proposal is not new, the mechanism for achieving it is new.
Scottish Enterprise runs the route development fund, which is the Executive's main tool in attracting new direct services. Until now, we have attracted about 30-odd new direct services to Scotland's main airports.