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We welcome the minister's support to try to ensure that that does not happen. The minister described those latest EC proposals as "controversial, provocative and confrontational."
When the Health Committee discussed petitions on 26 April last year, I sat there with some results on my knee about five members of our group—adults and children.
Margot Wallström said that she hoped to visit Scotland early in the new year, so there may be an opportunity for the committee to issue a formal invitation to meet her to consider progress and discuss matters further.
If the CJAs are not to be another layer, surely the groupings either stay put or evaporate? The idea is for the new CJAs to supersede the existing groupings.
A better flavour would be given if we mentioned the visits. Yes—paragraph 13 might be supplemented by a reference to the visits that the committee made.
I say this to the Parliament today: let us all work together to make the aspirations and ambitions that Paul Martin has for his area a reality.I have discussed a visit to Sighthill with Paul Martin. That visit will happen very soon.
Transport must be part of that picture and we need to plan now for rational and sustainable ways to manage demand and offer people real transport choices. We have new policies, new powers and now new resources.
You mentioned the figure 3,000 in your introduction, but I did not pick up what that was. The figure is from the latest school census, with which there was some difficulty.
The convener of the Rural Affairs Committee has written to the Minister for Rural Affairs asking that a statement on the latest position on the ban on the export of beef be made before the Christmas recess.