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We get invited to meetings at which people sit us down and ask for our opinions, but when they go ahead and do the follow-up work they ignore whatever we said.
Brian Adam is absolutely right; we must work more closely with the planning system in order to ensure that new bus services follow new industrial or housing developments.
Many discussions and much correspondence followed. During the January budget debate, I raised the matter directly with the Minister for Finance and Public Services.
We need to be more ambitious and make it a ban on public smoking places. I want to follow that up because I would not want your evidence to be misused.
The concern is that the count could easily continue until the Monday following the elections and that there is an insufficient number of staff—particularly senior staff—to cover the procedure.
If we are to bring about a genuine renaissance in passenger and freight rail in this century, we need a route that follows the northern bank of the Forth.