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Self-evaluation will be a useful tool, but only if it used alongside on-site inspections. Work on the implications for local authorities—as both providers and purchasers of services—of the transfer of funding and the new regime of fees is not complete.
Amendments 182 and 183 seek to do that by providing that access rights can be exercised on launching sites, groynes, weirs, boulder weirs, embankments of canalised waterways and on anything that is designed to facilitate passage.
In the equivalent debate last year, the Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform said to my colleague David Davidson:"only 9 per cent of the core settlement that goes to local government is ring fenced."—Official Report, 8 February 2006; c 23135.The Burt report makes for interesting reading on that issue.
He continued:"It is clear that a small minority of primary schools have serious problems of disaffection and demotivation."—Official Report, Education Committee, 8 June 2005; c 2495-96.Consideration of the curriculum is an extremely valuable exercise and I expect that many fruitful ideas will arise from it.
I welcome both the politicians and the officials to our meeting.I know that the representatives of Dundee City Council want to make a short opening statement—I do not know whether the witnesses from Angus Council will do the same—but I ask that it be kept as short as possible.
The fact that the instrument was flawed wasted everyone's time—the Subordinate Legislation Committee's time, officials' time and the Local Government and Transport Committee's time.
I especially want to thank the pupils of Firhill High School, who eloquently expressed their views on smoking on behalf of the younger generation in Scotland. I also want to record in the Official Report my appreciation of the Scottish Executive bill team, which has worked hard to support ministers and to prepare detailed and timely briefings for MSPs.
They are being piloted from August 2005 and will come into force officially in August 2006. Of course, however, not everyone will do a women's health module.