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Winnie Ewing will be the expert, but it is my understanding that the environmental impact assessment regulations date well back, to the 1980s, and were improved and updated in the late 1990s.
Such an accusation would be very serious and I rebut it completely. It was simply a mix-up about dates of and attendance at meetings and I hope we can now let the matter rest.You ask that I expand on the points to which Tony Cameron refers from the record of the meeting.
We are well aware of the issues behind the petition and I hope that we can resolve them at a later date. We should draw attention to the fact that we will take evidence from the minister once the strategic plan is published.
We produced a document at a meeting in November: "Good Practice Guide to Consultation in Dumfries And Galloway", dated 1998. Clearly, the council's representatives had not followed it, if indeed they had heard of it.
We can press ahead with this matter, and I will keep the committee up to date with any information that we receive from Northern Ireland and Wales.At this point, I want to raise the issue of the special educational needs inquiry.
The committee might then be better informed about whether to ask the minister to consider the matter in more detail than he has considered it to date. We have written to the minister.
I know that we have a tight work programme, but are we setting a date for when the group of reporters will produce an initial remit for us to consider?
The same principle would apply to any health board, and for whatever reason we made our comments.There would probably be merit in inviting Greater Glasgow Health Board to give a presentation at some future date. An informal presentation might be more useful.
We had a meeting with one oil company—not because the others were in any way difficult or unco-operative, but simply because trying to find a date when four members and an oil company could be in the same place was next to impossible.Our report captures the issues that we have considered so far.