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Can we ask the Executive specifically why this is a new development? The Executive has been using the procedures in subordinate legislation over the past eight years, but it is only this year that the matter has come up.
Do we need to do that, given that we will examine the new regulations later? We need to draw the attention of the lead committee and the Parliament to the regulations at hand.
I presume that the Commission will put the measure in place early in the new year. I do not think that the European Parliament was as generous as the Committee of the Regions was.
In that regard, I warmly welcome the announcement by the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport that we will be providing £7 million for a new community stadium in Aberdeen. That is long overdue and will be good for that city and the whole of the north-east of Scotland.
Will it be solved in his conversations between now and the announcements on the new budget? Will he release money from the six programmes into core funding?
However strongly Mr Martin and his former colleagues in the SNP might oppose the new PPP buildings, the reality is that we have better hospitals, better schools and better facilities for our young people and our sick and elderly people than we have had in Scotland for generations.
Has the minister received information from Lanarkshire NHS Board about its recent decision to site the new Lanarkshire cancer care centre at Monklands hospital?
I think it can be used on animals. There was a BBC news programme about how dogs are being chipped because there have been some really sad cases of celebrities losing their dogs.
If Christine Grahame wishes to write to me about the matter, I will look at that, but I know that, throughout Scotland, the new powers under the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004 are being used effectively.