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Committees can do that at the moment; they can decide their own priorities and what inquiries they want to hold. Apart from a number of exceptional cases, I have not found much difficulty with the timetabling of stage 1.
It is essential that community councils raise their voices to protect this vital public service. It is a pleasure at any time to visit any part of my constituency, but it is a particular pleasure when I go to Kinloch Rannoch, Glenisla or Glen Esk.
I am not quite clear what Carolyn Leckie is trying to achieve. All of us, with the exception of David Davidson, want to restrict the ability of the private sector to expand in the national health service— Will the member take an intervention?
Those teams are sometimes also called drug and alcohol action teams and in that respect they are already joined up in every area except, for specific reasons, in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
As expected, the department found that every board was conscious of the need for pain management. All except Highland NHS Board, which has arrangements for referral to other areas, provide some form of chronic pain management service.
We have spent a considerable amount of time, including part of the summer recess, visiting projects throughout the country.The committee is now at the end of that long inquiry and intends to publish its report in about two weeks' time.
Have they all gone on the beat, or have they been absorbed in other areas? A difficulty in comparing ourselves with the police south of the border is that we operate within a different legal framework, so we are not comparing like with like.
Advice from Central Legal Office
A key issue highlighted in both reports was the comparative speed with which the advice was sought and obtained from the CLO.