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How can we ensure that, while there is no abuse of the system, carers' rights are protected when the people for whom they care die? It is not always easy to predict when somebody is going to die or move into care, so it would be quite difficult to abuse the system deliberately.
However, there is another side to the coin. Even when someone buys a fixed-price property they must take into consideration the need for a survey to satisfy themselves—caveat emptor—that they are buying something that they know and understand.
Tha daoine dualtach a bhith smaoineachadh gum bi a' chlann a tha sin le aon chànan aig deireadh bun-sgoile 's chan eil sin fìor idir. Tha dà chànan aca agus 's e, dà-rìribh, Foghlam tro Mheadhan na Gàidhlig foghlam dà-chànanach.
The SNP policy on the right to buy is that it would go for new tenants; existing tenants, whose tenancies include the right to buy, would keep it until it was exercised.
I was sent a letter recently telling me that work would be done on the site, but most of it will be to the warden's office. She does not live there; she is there only for five minutes every day.
This money was subsequently spent on a new 'Sustainable Agriculture Capital Grants Scheme', which aimed to support farming businesses with grants to buy equipment to reduce emissions, such as slurry covers and spreaders.
It seems to me that, if we want to prevent men from buying sex or reduce the incidence of men buying sex and thereby reduce prostitution, the act of buying sex should be made an offence.