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I invite committee members to ask their questions. On the day that Dr Paisley is visiting the Parliament, will the cabinet secretary explain how a cable between Scotland and Northern Ireland can be regarded as international, when I assumed that we were all still part of the United Kingdom, which is one indivisible nation?
If the person is categorised as a social services worker, he or she must be registered and have X, Y or Z qualification, which is where differences in pay and conditions get acute and problematic.
We could not just have a statutory duty—we would have to say that it involved X, Y and Z. However, that would present the danger that some councils might retreat from fairly high levels of provision on the basis that, because what they needed to do was defined, they would do only that.
In 1997, 26,000 patients were waiting for more than 26 weeks—36 are doing so today. In any terms, that is a significant achievement, which was achieved by removing many of the blockages.
However, we do not intend to introduce a requirement for a compulsory inspection regime in local authorities. We envisage that EHOs could visit premises while conducting other visits in the vicinity.
This is not about saying prices cannot go up, or prices must go down, or prices can go up, but only by X or Y. This is about asking how much it will cost to deliver efficiently what ministers have specified.
I understand that.A couple of weeks ago, we visited Peterhead Port Authority. Like numerous other organisations around our coastline, it exercises management functions through powers that have been delegated to it by act of Parliament.