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We have a bit of a backlog of instruments, because during the recess and for a couple of weeks before it we did not consider any subordinate legislation.The Deputy Minister for Community Care, Iain Gray, is with us, together with officials from the Food Standards Agency.
We need to incorporate that into the report that is to go to the Parliament after the October recess. Could we just ignore the requirement to have deputy conveners until then?
However, its record included the two biggest recessions since the second world war, the introduction of the iniquitous poll tax and mass unemployment, which it used quite deliberately as an economic tool.
I ask this question from a position of jealousy: looking at the suntan that you and others have after the recess, I think that perhaps my week in Ardnamurchan should have been spent somewhere else.How is the quality of service provision affected by self-financing pay awards?
We further agreed that we would write again to the Executive to establish whether the target date for making portable oxygen cylinders available had been met.