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We could utilise the Parliament building during recess for innovative schemes to encourage young people to take part in the political process and we could use it as a resource for community groups.
There is no provision in business motion S1M-2548 for progress on electoral reform or for a statement to the chamber before the Christmas recess. Will you remind ministers that important announcements should be made first to the Parliament and not through the media?
George Lyon and other members—including me—talked about the need to review where we are going. After the summer recess, will the minister lodge a motion for debate in the chamber on the Executive's thinking on the future?
That is what I understood. Should we aim for an earlier date or meet on the scheduled date? Certain difficulties would arise in trying to arrange a meeting at shorter notice.
The fact that we are opening the dark recesses and discussing the problems openly is a positive sign of how far the Parliament has come.It is relatively easy to sum up a debate such as this, as there has not been a great deal of disagreement.
In oral evidence to the committee before the summer recess, I talked about a number of ways in which the landscape and habitat management plan might be given more force.
Items in Private Under agenda item 2, the committee will consider whether to take in private agenda item 5—consideration of the evidence that has been received to date in our rural development inquiry—and whether to consider our draft report on the inquiry in private at future meetings until we have concluded it.