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The Highlands and Islands fire service feels that disbanding the Inverness control room would cause great difficulty and great concern in the area as people would feel that their safety was compromised.I have visited the control room in Inverness and have been very impressed by the professionalism of its staff.
At next week's meeting of the Cabinet, the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport will report back to us on her visit to Australia this week to support the Scottish team in the youth Commonwealth games.
It is true that the programme of committee visits enables us to go out to talk to people in the field, but I think that, in our later meetings, we should bring in some of the people who provide the service to talk to the committee.
I hope to be able to report back on those options.I have continued to visit a variety of voluntary bodies, some of which have expressed the view that they would have more confidence in a review that was conducted by the committee than in one that was conducted by the Executive, which may be carried out by civil servants who are tied into the existing system...
We must roll things out across the country and continue our investigations, so I want to focus on the committee's visits programme.As part of its evidence-gathering activities for the inquiry, the committee plans to carry out a programme of visits throughout the country.
There will be a number of strands to the framework, but that suggestion would require a new piece of legislation. Mary Scanlon referred to hidden carers.