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The mental health and well-being support group is beginning a series of visits around health boards, to help with the implementation of that framework.
I give a special welcome to the delegation from the Petitions and Public Participation Committee of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature of South Africa, which is visiting the Parliament this week and has expressed particular interest in seeing the Public Petitions Committee in operation.
That will allow us not to meet next week, when most members are committing at least one day, if not two, to local government visits. Next week, our scheduled meeting on Tuesday afternoon will clash with a couple of other committees.
A group of northern countries, including the United Kingdom, does not want state subsidies to be reintroduced for new vessel building, but groups of southern and eastern countries take the opposing view.
I am talking about the public sector having the opportunity to share its experience of PPPs. PPP is a relatively new approach and, as with everything new, there are success stories and less successful stories.
Staff to whom I have spoken—both on formal visits and informally—want to balance eye-to-eye engagement with patients in hospitals or other care environments with engagement through the telephone-based system.
I think that it is the latter.I wonder how on earth the First Minister is meant to represent the views of the regions with legislative power in relevant Commission initiatives and how that process is undertaken. We know that he has visited a number of regions, but how does he gather the work together?
I thank the committee for the action that it has taken on the petition, which resulted in a superb visit by members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, which was supported by the external liaison unit and the British Council.
Can we make a small change to page 11? Although a part of our visit to the north-east was based on the water framework directive, another part of it was not.