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Members may wish to note that the Executive has noted a flaw in the drafting of SSI 2007/186; new instruments were laid last week to revoke and replace the order, and we will consider those instruments at our meeting of 28 March.
A little time is needed before people get used to the new slot and for education centre programmes and visits from constituencies to be organised to accommodate the change.
The report will give us a picture of exactly what this will mean throughout the EU and in particular for the new accession states. That will take on board many of the points that Keith Raffan and Dennis Canavan have raised.
Journalists who are keen to fill the Sunday supplements recently described the Greens as the new puritans, although personally I would be far more comfortable to recast ourselves as the new hedonists.
It is also why we chose 15 days or more as the threshold for the new combined structure. We want the new structure to apply to the maximum possible number of offenders.
The service had to wait for new money to be released by either the Executive or the council, and when new money was released it went to those who were at the top of the priority list for care home places.
I agree that there is great potential for any area that is designated as a national park. Last month, we launched our new strategy for Scottish tourism, to lead our tourism industry into a new phase of modernisation and expansion.