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Is it the expense? Is it possible to get justice on the cheap? In my experience, the demands for a public inquiry do not go away, they just get stronger.
Let us see whether we can be just as successful in getting through the policy issues. I suspend the meeting for a moment to allow members to get a cup of coffee.
Tommy Sheridan's proposal would not grow the economy; it would simply try to take more out of the existing cake, which would not get larger—indeed, because of the disincentivising of wealth creation, it might get smaller.
We are dealing with people's homes. Landlords can get things wrong; I have come across cases—as I am sure Bill Aitken has—in which, after a conflict between two prospective tenants, the landlord gets the wrong lot: the antisocial tenant.
However, if members are not taking the process seriously, that is a matter for them. We have enough work to get on with without getting into another inquiry and taking evidence on question time.
People come to Glasgow airport from as far away as Aberdeen.We should put off making a decision on this petition until we get a reply from the Executive on the outcome of its consideration of what BAA is saying in relation to the byelaws.