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Introducing further financial incentives to recruit new dentists is really good news. The Liberal Democrats are pleased that the Executive has accepted that we need to train more dentists in Scotland, which is excellent.
Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003: Annual Report 2004 I welcome members, visiting members, the public and the press to the 15th meeting in 2005 of the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
Many farmers in Aberdeenshire are asking why they cannot—in a one-off movement—move the animals that are outwith the farms back to the safety of their farms. They must visit the animals twice a day and they risk spreading the disease through moving backwards and forwards across the countryside.
I wonder whether the goalposts have moved somewhat, because the new crossing, if and when it is built, will open a new context in terms of the finances involved and whether tolls will be necessary.
Rail investment is on the increase and has resulted in the new Glasgow-to-Edinburgh service that runs every 15 minutes, new railway stations in Fife and new diesel rolling stock right across the network.
We would be concerned about any significant reduction in management time and resource, and we need to keep in touch, particularly following the latest reduction in class contact time in August, to see what the impact of that has been in practice.
Some communities have access to cars and will use the expensive new motorways that the Executive is promoting, whereas other communities do not have that access and their lives will be blighted by the new motorways.