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I suggest that all members keep the papers relating to this item, rather than make the clerk reproduce them for a subsequent meeting. Thank you for that good point. We shall take that approach. We have previously agreed to take agenda item 6, relating to stage 2 of the Transport (Scotland) Bill, in private.
Transport of Animals (Cleansing and Disinfection) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (SSI 2000/167) The second matter is SSI 2000/167. Various legal points have been raised. Fergus, did you want to mention something?
Does he agree that that is a good example of partnership in community care, which we were discussing this morning? I am happy to repeat the point: that is an excellent example of different agencies and funding streams pulling together.
I believe that that was discussed when Parliament debated Winnie Ewing's members' business motion. It was pointed out that there is a lack of trained signers, courses and funding for those courses.
It is not as if we are not dealing with those issues, although we might be dealing with them differently from the way in which the petitioners first imagined. The other important point is that none of those transfers will take place prior to our report being issued.
Gordon has set out fairly the difficulties that face the members of this committee and which will, ultimately, face all MSPs, who are having to deal with issues that are not particularly easy and that are being argued from entirely contradictory points of view.
I might be wrong, but does that go some way to meeting Phil Gallie's point about problems that might be caused if the nearest relative has been living in Timbuktu for 20 years?
Perhaps members can identify with the experience—clouds of plaster dust and the constant sound of merry hammering. At one point in recent weeks, I was moved to wonder and delight—by the new staircase.
I take it that the minister will also be asked to come along to give evidence at some point. Would that be appropriate, for the purposes of clarification?