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Further, what steps is the Executive taking to help to clear the current backlog at Volunteer Development Scotland, where applications are sitting for up to six weeks at a time?
I understand that a report published earlier this week—or perhaps last week—by a committee of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body commended what has been happening in Scotland in comparison with what has been happening in England.
Although we have done all those things, the Executive does not have a closed mind about other things that we want to do to keep Scotland at the forefront of improving young people's health, partly through school meals but also through a range of other actions.
Again, we need to put such matters in the context of our health service here in Scotland. NHS 24 has a 95 per cent satisfaction rate from those who use it.
I certainly welcome Professor Kerr's comments and the interest that he is showing in Duncan McNeil's area and throughout Scotland. I echo his general approach to these matters.
This week, once again, a prisoner was released in error from Scotland's courts. Yesterday, a senior official from the Scottish Prison Service told the media that mistakes such as the one this week were fully expected.
The point is that the review is needed for toll bridges all over Scotland. The minister's response, as regards time, was that it would be done "in due course".