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We can take into account Bill's recommendation.I appreciate people's commitments and the pressures on their diaries, but we are all in the same position and we really have to make an attempt to manage as best we can. Convener, you and I keep on missing each other to discuss the details of the drugs inquiry and our visits.
This is an excellent committee report that illustrates the benefits of working together. It brings the best out of the aspirations that we had for the new Parliament and its committee system.
You also stressed in your opening statement the importance of continuing local involvement. How does COSLA think we can best get the balance right between the national and the local in the new system?
Even though, historically, it probably took only 26 minutes, the fact is that now the journey is 25 minutes long, plus or minus two minutes, whereas before it was 26 minutes, plus up to half an hour more.
Non-urgent cases will be seen by visiting neurologist service in approximately 26 weeks.NHS Highland are currently recruiting a neurologist, which will result in a significant reduction in the above times.
There is some super work going on out there.We want to give everybody the best; we do not want to reduce to a lower common denominator the service that is provided to people in Scotland.
It was a Tory phrase in a Tory act. It was the best phrase for the time and, after extensive investigation, it remains the best phrase now.I ask members to support the bill at stage 1.