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If such organisations are held to be better informed about volunteers and employees, will that create new liabilities and therefore mean new costs for them?
The Executive has initiated this debate to give the Parliament an early opportunity to discuss our continued commitment to the fire service in Scotland following the publication of our latest consultation paper on proposed new legislation.
We would need permission from the Conveners Group to get the resources to do that. We can ask the clerks to put together a committee bid that we can then put to the Conveners Group.
There is a general willingness to take action if it can be worked out how that can best be done. You will certainly get written responses from the petitioners.