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The general services that all parents can benefit from are now threadbare. Health visiting is so overstretched and under-manned—or under-personed—that the latest proposal is that health visitors' visits be restricted to high-poverty and high-deprivation areas.
We should also seek an explanation of why we are reducing the cost of casino licences by 26 per cent. Is it an issue in Govan, Gordon, if higher bingo costs are passed to the consumer?
Does the First Minister not accept that the only way for him to conclude the matter—which he has admitted is preventing him from getting on with his job—would be to make a full disclosure of all the issues and information in the case?
The legislative reform that we seek is to get rid of a rather nasty, divisive piece of legislation that sought to create a two-tier system of education.
For that reason, it is vital that committee business has the opportunity to get coverage and interest that it would not get if it were held at the same time as the plenary session, which would inevitably get all the coverage.