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There can be no doubt that cannabis use is part of the culture of young people. The police seem to take a de facto approach to the matter and ignore cannabis users' offences.
At least two of our neighbours in the cul-de-sac are structural engineers. They said that because the bill was so close to coming before Parliament, the engineering studies must all have been done, so the promoter must have known where the line was going—the bill could not have been so close to that stage without the promoter knowing where the line would go...
At the moment, the radiation protection division of the Health Protection Agency provides a certificate in certain cases. If that certificate is produced, de facto the planning authority has nothing to take into account, apart from the fact that the certificate exists.
As there is a long list of members who want to speak, I ask members to speak for around four minutes. I call Des McNulty, to be followed by Andrew Wilson.
In addition, amendments 388 and 390 are technically incompetent, as part V of the Police Act 1997 refers to enhanced criminal record certificates, rather than enhanced disclosure certificates.
We will try to find consensus in that session but, if we cannot, we will use the four-letter word that begins with a "v". I thank Fiona Hyslop for flagging up that issue, which I will consider in particular.The next section is on public petitions.
I will give way, but I want to get going first.In the Borders general hospital, where services have been maintained in house, there is an esprit de corps—team spirit—and services are of a high standard.The Tories also introduced NHS trusts.
Kenny Gibson and I were curious about why Lewis Macdonald rather than Des McNulty will close the debate for the minister, but we were not long into the debate when we realised why.