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The national debate on education and the committee's parallel purposes-of-education inquiry provided two opportunities for the petitioners to make their points about the value or otherwise of such education.
On one of our visits to Brussels, the point was made that the current situation means that directives are implemented or set in tablets of stone before we know about them.
Members should not believe that we are ignoring the issue altogether—we are not. On the point that Winnie Ewing made, it seems that the term has been used internationally and has some validity.
I thank Sylvia Jackson for her interest in the issue and for pursuing that important point. The letter that she received should have answered the other questions that were raised at the meeting.
That is not what happened with the agricultural strategy document, which we had to read on the hoof—if you will pardon the pun. That point was well made—pun and all. On that note, are members content to move on?
He indicated that he would like clarification of the statement made by Lothian Health that the level of service provided—particularly on waiting times—would be the same as last year.The clerks wrote to the board requesting clarification on that point and a response has been received.
Pauline McNeill makes a number of important points. As part of its remit, the review that is being conducted will consider the overall number of quangos or NDPBs in Scotland.
All those are pieces of information that citizens might want to know for one reason or another. The point is that they will be entitled to know; they will not have to establish a need to know.