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If we look across the budget and see no expression of whether we have even asked that question, we can say that it does not meet the international standard that we would expect to enable us to say that we are taking people’s rights into consideration.
Gyms and places where there is congregational or communal singing fall into the same category. In short—I am not expressing this in the way that an expert would do—we are talking about places where people’s pattern of breathing might be changed.
Agnieszka, how does peer review play a role in your organisation? First, I express a caveat. I cannot speak about peer review as confidently as Orlaith McBride has spoken, because it is not within the desk’s competence to be directly involved in it.
That said, your question was about what happens if the wishes that have been expressed thus far do not happen and we as a nation do not have access to those funds.
Of course we want there to be fewer suicides, but I am less sure that setting an absolute target is the way to do it. I am sure that expressing an ambition—we are beginning to see the green shoots of that since the first draft came out—is the right way to go.
However, I encourage the committee and the Scottish Government to test fully and widely how some of the issues that have been raised would play out in practice and whether there are changes that would need to be made in the current practices around the public appointments process in Scotland to ensure that everything works in tandem. I have expressed conce...