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Sandy Rosie and Andrew Clearie are here to help me with that.I have done my best to read the Official Report of some of the committee's previous meetings.
However, it is a pleasure for us to be here and I thank the officials of Scottish Borders Council for their assistance in enabling us to hold this meeting in the Langlee complex.All members of the committee have already undertaken a site visit along the entire route of the proposed railway and I think that I speak on...
If a national control centre received a call reporting a fire at a place called Third Park cottages, which is a wee group of cottages that probably does not appear on a map, would it know that the site was within a mile of a nuclear power station?
There were meetings between senior officials of the Parliament and senior officials of the Executive on 16 February and 21 February but, strangely enough, there is no record or minute of those meetings stating the outcomes or purpose of them.
There is an on-going dialogue between the clerks and officials in the outside agencies to ensure that we are always kept abreast of the way in which they would encourage us to take things forward, and we are open to any suggestions that they have.
There could be technical elements, and progress might be much quicker if we have one person talking to a Commission department, as opposed to our waiting for Commission officials to find a date in their diaries when they can come to Scotland.
The only way forward is to enter into discussions with the Scottish Executive Health Department and the Minister for Health and Community Care, or his officials—we can make a judgment on that.
As we have agreed to take agenda items 4 and 5 in private, I ask the press and public to leave and the official report to shut down. Meeting continued in private until 12:57.