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Partly, we have approached the matter from the wrong end, as all these matters are decided by planners, council housing officials and other worthies rather than by the people who are concerned.
I have been briefed on the scheme by council officials. I have heard the chairman of the council committee bravely and sincerely defend the scheme at a packed meeting in Shettleston Hall.
Rather than going over what we discussed then, do you have a note of our areas of concern? Everybody now has the Official Report of yesterday's meeting.
While we recognise that it was achieved only as a result of great sacrifice— as was said, there is no doubt that count arrangements were under great strain—it is important that we do not overlook the task that officials were asked to perform on that evening.
I am inclined to believe Cowal residents and the people who write in that newspaper when they say that there is a crisis. No matter what official spin—I hope that my friend Alasdair Morrison will be positive—there is from Highlands and Islands Enterprise or officials of Argyll and Bute Council, there is a crisis of c...
It would probably be simpler for this committee and the Equal Opportunities Committee to agree to examine it jointly. That would be simpler for the officials who are servicing the committees and for clerks and members.
In the House of Lords, Greville Janner said in relation to taking such disputed items into the UK:"If it is stolen art, I do not want them to bring it here."—Official Report, House of Lords, 29 November 2006; Vol 687, c 787.
We will have a short suspension to allow the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development and her officials to come to the table. Meeting suspended.