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We will put more work into that because we would like the matter to be clear in our diaries before we break up for the Christmas recess—hopefully, by early December. Recommendation 2 invites the committee to"give the clerks direction regarding oral evidence".We have agreed to do that, but have we actually done it?
If 19 September is missed, there will be other party conferences and an October recess, so it would be likely that the stage 1 debate could not take place until late October or early November.
I hope that its members have sufficient rest during the summer recess to come up with a policy on what the SNP would do and from where in the health service it would get the money that it keeps demanding.
We will have the draft report to consider the following week, and then we have to finalise it the week after that because it has to be published before the Christmas recess. Meeting closed at 13:31.
The Conservation of Salmon (Esk Salmon Fishery District) Regulations 2005 were originally scheduled to be dealt with by the committee before the February recess, but because Andrew Welsh lodged a motion to annul, we were given more time to bring it to today's meeting.
When a consultation is launched at the end of June and closes at the beginning of September, during a parliamentary recess, that is difficult for organisations such as ours.