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However, I am not sure that the Fostering Network or Barnardo's would have recommended what we did as best practice.I think that we all agree that we must aim for the best overall outcomes.
Is the minister aware that domestic water charges in the Forth valley area have increased by 220 per cent since 1994, compared with an increase of only 26 per cent in the retail prices index over the same period?
If he is not able to take that position at this time, will he at least agree that the creation of new religious dividing lines in our school system would be a step in the wrong direction?
So can we look forward to fewer closures throughout Scotland as a result of the new system? Will the new system give fishermen the opportunity to fish for longer periods of the year?
The draft regulations—which must have the longest name of any draft regulations that I have put before the committee—contain the latest in a series of amendments that have been made to the packaging recovery scheme since it was introduced in 1997.
That suggestion has been made elsewhere.Even with an issue that, on the face of it, seems quite simple, there are several complex options. It would be best to include the matter in our legacy paper for the new committee.
If we want to make this issue an important one on the probity and prudence of how we conduct our affairs in relation to their financial implications, the best way to achieve that would be to produce our own report and give it to the Procedures Committee.