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I hope that we have posted the necessary traffic lights to say what needs to happen in Scotland for health care delivery. It is up to the Executive to make the right decisions to take that forward.
That is agreed unanimously.The next item is consideration in private of the committee's draft stage 1 report on the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Bill. Before we go into private, I invite Maureen Macmillan to repeat the statement that she has made for some weeks while we have considered this putative legi...
The Justice 1 Committee is about to start stage 2 of the Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill. You referred to cross-border co-operation by the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency, within which is the Scottish high-tech crime unit.
Before we begin our questioning, it is worth reminding everyone present that our preliminary stage report recommended that the general principles of the bill be agreed to and stated that the committee was content for the bill to proceed as a private bill.
It attempts to address the published views of the Local Government Committee following stage 1 consideration of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Bill. There is no happy medium between censure and an immediate suspension of 12 months.
I need to lend it to somebody else.I would like to turn the First Minister's attention to a more serious and important matter. Yesterday, a member's bill was lodged that seeks to take rail passenger services in Scotland back into public ownership.
It is more important that we take the right decision for the city of Glasgow.Mr Peacock is on record as saying that there is"a broad ranging review examining the economic, environmental and social prospects for Scotland's cities."
I thank you all for attending but, before you go, I would like to say a couple of things on the record about the arrangements for stage 2 of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill. At its meeting yesterday, the Parliamentary Bureau formally designated us as the lead committee for stage 2—no surprises there.
On reducing the burden of legislation, there is no point in saying that we passed only X number of bills, if the number of regulations and statutory instruments flowing from the bills increases exponentially.