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Speeches have been informative and constructive.The motion states that the official report of the debate will form part of the Parliament's response to the consultation by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland.
Alex Fergusson referred to a response from Ross Finnie in which the minister says that he and his officials hope to reach a resolution within six months—that is, by the end of March 2004.Nothing has happened since 2000.
How has that been reflected in the Executive's budget and do you think that that will enable local authorities to take advantage of the new regime? Our official view is that it is for the Executive to set spending limits.
I also thank the many people who have responded over many months to consultations on the bill. In particular, I thank my officials in the Executive bill team, who have worked extremely hard, too.
The committee has an interesting model for involving young people, councillors, council officials and officials from other bits of the public sector, such as the health service and the police.
It has been suggested that we could send the Executive a copy of the Official Report of this part of today's meeting and ask it to respond to the points that the petitioners have made.
I will keep my introductory remarks short, as I know that what the committee wants is a progress report, as members have already had a briefing from officials on some of the content of the bill.