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I understand why Phil Gallie enjoys his private bill committee meetings. To anyone who follows Ayr United and who regularly has to attend matches at Somerset Park, I am sure that such committee meetings offer light relief.
My view is that our more thorough piece of work ought to follow the completion of the Auditor General's work, but it would be appropriate and desirable for us to have an evidence-taking session at this stage to probe the specific issues raised within his report.
I will go through our reasoning and then discuss it in more detail with the committee.The structure of the bill follows closely the format of existing legislation.
Without the requirement of health boards to follow standards, they will continue to ignore the good guidelines that have been laid down, not because they are callous, but because they do not have enough money.
There may well be existing statutory obligations that public authorities would be obliged to follow, but the legislation is not intended to impose further statutory requirements.