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To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for a hernia operation in the Fife Health Board Area. The latest information available for the median waiting time for Fife residents admitted routinely from the waiting list for a hernia operation during the 12 month period to 31 December 1999 was 112 days.
Although it is logical to say that poindings and warrant sales should not be abolished until a new system is in place, I did not detect any great urgency to do that.
For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.
However, the current set-up has always had a problem—and the new set-up replicates it—when capital investment is required to build developments such as new TICs or the new hubs that were spoken about in earlier evidence.
The stated purpose of those specific duties is to ensure better performance by the listed authorities of their general statutory duty to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination and harassment and to promote equality of opportunity between men and women in performing their functions.
Ian Fleming has been directly involved in discussions and can give you the latest information. We work closely with the Home Office, which is currently undertaking a review of child sex offenders.
I am grateful to the Scottish warm homes campaign for appearing today. We considered its petition on 26 April last year when, to a large extent, we were quite a different committee.
Our challenge is to ensure that we build on existing strengths while modernising the education system to face the new challenges. By modernisation, we mean taking account of new thinking, new technology, new knowledge and new skills.
If we are trying to build a new Scotland, the attitude that there should be no compensation for some because we did not get it is not an attitude on which we can base a new democracy or a new nation.This has been a bad afternoon for the Parliament.