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It never ceases to amaze me how time catches up and how everybody tends to use the end date as the target date. Also, we cannot do too much organising of resources even earlier in the piece.
I know that drafting amendments is always difficult, but Mr Neil might wish to return to the issue at a later date. Amendment 17, by agreement, withdrawn.
The bill is supposed to support and encourage crofting; in other words, it is meant to be advantageous to crofting. Unfortunately, to date, concerns have been expressed to us—by witnesses and in submissions—that the bill might further open up crofts to the market.
We are trying to provide 21st century services in accommodation that is many years past its sell-by date on a model that no planned service would have in place in the 21st century.
I believe that the matter is quite pressing, although I do not have a specific date. I could make further inquiries about that and advise the committee at our next meeting.
If the committee would find it helpful, I could offer written documentation on that. It would help to have an up-to-date description. Could you put that in the context of how it fits into the Finance and Central Services Department?
The board is not aware of any breach of the condition to date. I should explain that the introduction of the condition was not, as it were, a big bang on a single day, when it suddenly applied to every public house or hotel in Dundee.
How does that fit with the work that you are undertaking to continue to improve on the management savings that you have made to date? It is a bit premature for me to say whether the management structure will change.
I have had representations from agricultural interests, the staff and the students, all of whom still regard the proposals with significant reservations.I have taken some trouble to go through Professor McKelvey's letter to the committee dated 16 September. I note that he has offered to keep the minister fully informed of the details of the business plan as...
It was also established:"Beyond that date, a strategic approach to the funding of children's support services will be put in place that will involve a variety of partners."