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I am sorry, but I am over my time.Today, Wendy Alexander and I visited visitscotland's office and attended the daily foot-and-mouth disease emergency meeting.
At the moment, the system is based on the issuing of electronic notices between utilities and roads authorities, but we are trying to move to a system whereby a screen will tell people who is working in particular places.
With detailed monthly reports for every budget holder, surely that should have shown up on your radar screen, or on somebody's. You are talking about 200 people.
We believe that the forum's role is to bring into the discussion on policy those groups that are not the usual suspects—the tenants association in Drumchapel, the Gingerbread group or single parent families groups, for example.
It became hard to see how a cost that would fall on the owners of schemes—usually people running a business or renting out property—could affect the behaviour of their employees or tenants, who would be the motorists but would not be the ones to pay the charge.
There needs to be the willingness to get out there, visit other nations and be dynamic and entrepreneurial in the way that many Scots have been over the centuries.
That was brought home to me last Friday when I visited a school in Aberdeen. Groups of children had to give a presentation on an issue and one little boy—he was in primary 6—talked about midwifery services.
Since we were set up, we have undertaken only one fact-finding visit, which was to Copenhagen, for which we had to go through a different process from everyone else.
If the faculty and the Law Society say that only a small number of complaints involve more than £20,000, a visit to our website will soon put them right on that.