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I suppose that it is increasingly difficult for you to timetable stage 3 debates, because you do not know who wants to speak, when they want to speak and what they want to speak about. I know that best guesses are made about such issues.
Central to the success of the strategy, however, is the need greatly to improve support facilities, to put in resources and to encourage best practice in the identification and assessment of those with support needs.
You look like an unhappy headmaster. Or a hanging judge. The best picture is of Michael Matheson. I looked at that photograph of Michael and wondered why he was not at school.
Instead of the committee continually trying to weed out small pieces of information from the wider picture, we could suggest that the petitioner would be better off submitting a new petition on any specific issue that remains outstanding.
Does the minister agree that not only the new dental institute's training role should be considered in such consultation, but that its treatment role for thousands of patients who have been deregistered by dental practices that went private and who are now receiving NHS services again should be considered?
Transport Scotland aims to have that work completed in time to allow the process of any necessary consultation and Scottish transport appraisal guidance analysis to start as soon as possible in the new session of Parliament. As the minister knows, I was extremely disappointed that the private bill that is undergoing its parliamentary consideration did not i...
Genetically Modified Food To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the view of Scotland's new chief scientific adviser, Professor Anne Glover, that people should embrace genetically modified food as an answer to poverty, hunger and toxic pollution.
Does she accept that the person whom she appointed as the interim chief executive of the new service has made it clear to six SCRO officers that they have no future in the service despite their long and unblemished record in the SCRO and the fact that their professionalism was upheld by successive inquiries?
Nowadays, our communities include people from different cultural and faith backgrounds. We, as well as our new neighbours, need to adjust, in mutual respect, to find harmony in diversity.
That target looks only at CO2 reductions from selected areas, and it completely ignores the increase in emissions from such things as new motorway construction. When will the First Minister commit Scotland to a target on emissions from all sources of CO2, not just those that he cherry picks?