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Bute House is the only Scottish Executive building which is categorised as a residence, and procedures to ensure that residents, including visiting dignitaries etc, have access to medical advice or assistance have been in place for some time.
There are some important issues that we must consider in balancing the requirement for the committees to have sufficient time to scrutinise Government bills or members' bills; the right of members to lodge bills; and the right of the Government to get its bills through the system. There is also the issue of whether the Government is trying to get too many bills through the system.
I am keen that that should enable us to ensure that people not only come off illegal drugs, but move from substitute prescribing and get the support that will enable them to come off methadone, for example, so that they can get back into their communities to live constructive lives as decent citizens.
Suffice to say that animal welfare is crucial but the main thing is that, to rebuild confidence after a difficult period, we work together to get the export ban lifted and start to work in agriculture to get back to the position that we were in before.
It is not just the fact that someone gets a degree that matters; the sort of degree that they get and what they can do with it matters, too.The credo that is being introduced in England will leach over the border.
Once people get to that point and have admitted that they have a problem, they do not want to hang around and wait for eight weeks before getting some advice.