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In your view, should Parliament's activities perhaps concentrate on providing information and getting people to visit the building, and should the Scottish Civic Forum concentrate more on the on-going processes of engagement and participation?
Perhaps this question is a bit light hearted, but does that mean that the boards get sight in advance of some of the press releases that announce new initiatives?
We will issue a survey early in the new year and will try, in presenting the findings of that survey, to tease out the views of back benchers and to get different perspectives from the various political groups.
Sections 19 to 25 agreed to. Section 26—Authorisation of post-mortem examination etc: child 12 years of age or over Amendments 67 to 69 moved—Lewis Macdonald—and agreed to.
Although it is early days, good work is being done to attract to Dumfries and Galloway manufacturing jobs that arise as a result of the Robin rigg wind farm project. I did not get my question quite right earlier.
That leads on to the techie stuff; I do not know whether you want to get on to that now. No; I am trying to get at how we shift funding towards the areas that need it.
We should be clear that it is sometimes quite difficult to get decisions at the European level and that the fact that a majority is required in the Council of Ministers already makes it quite hard to get legislation through.
We should be clear that it is sometimes quite difficult to get decisions at the European level and that the fact that a majority is required in the Council of Ministers already makes it quite hard to get legislation through.