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His recent report states:"Passive smoking represents the greatest risk to public health when compared to other forms of ‘involuntary' environmental exposure."
I hope that Mr McLetchie acknowledges that local business taxation is only part of the overall basket of taxation, which puts Scotland in the lowest quartile of international comparative studies of business taxation.
As far as I am aware, environmental health officers visit all premises that sell food. The police also visit a number of premises—especially licensed premises—regularly.
I want that to be considered.Secondly, has the industry had unfair costs visited upon it as a result of the regime that exists here, compared with the regimes in Chile or Ireland, for example?
Is the evidence purely— You have already visited Barlinnie. I am sorry, but you agree that what happens at Barlinnie is not directly comparable with what happens at Peterhead.
Indeed, members who travelled overseas to take evidence for the inquiry were struck by the reservoir of warmth that they encountered in the countries that they visited. I visited Paris and Dublin and other members visited other places.
That is a good arena in which organisations can work together and compare notes on the kinds of things that they are doing to improve services for Gypsy Travellers.