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We have already met our 2010 European directive requirements and we are now looking on to the next key date, which is 2013. We will want to ensure that progress is being made towards achieving the target.
The committee would welcome being kept up to date on the matter.The budget allocation for concessionary fares does not appear to have increased since last year's draft budget.
It would be helpful, convener, if the cabinet secretary would keep the committee up to date on developments. Yes, indeed. Ministers will be delighted to do that.
We have to ensure on behalf of the Government and other parties that might lodge amendments that these issues will be addressed in the guidance. To date, we have had absolutely no evidence that they will.
Perhaps we will have to return to that issue at a later date. The budget document makes only a passing reference to the accessibility of transport, which you mentioned briefly in your opening remarks.
I am not convinced by the argument that limiting questions during the recess would be an advantage. The world still turns and life goes on during the recess.
We could then have a meeting a week or so before the recess ends, so that we resume after the recess with our work programme agreed and having made a start on implementing it.