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That will be a significant element of what takes place in Des McNulty's constituency.On the wider issue of alcohol abuse, Des McNulty will be aware that we will shortly launch our long-term strategy for tackling alcohol misuse.
They are a useful starting point, but to respond specifically to Des McNulty’s question, my view is that we should be more radical and look more widely than that.
For example, in my constituency, we no longer have any local newspapers, which is a disadvantage in many ways. However, we have a local magazine, Hoolit, which carries local adverts and, as a sideline, supports the use of Glasgow and Scots words.
The research is looking at a number of possibilities, such as using hydrophobic coating on the cables, or deploying a different type of de-icing system. Laboratory research will be carried out later this year to test those options.
It would also be useful to consider examples from other countries. In France, the pacte civil de solidarité—PACS—is what we might call a registered partnership-lite arrangement.
That seems to me to be absurd and runs contrary to the practice whereby, when the producer organisation Angus Growers was de-recognised, the legal action was taken against the Scottish Government.
At one stage, not long ago, there was an assumption by developers that the route out of hospital was, de facto, straight to a residential and nursing care business, and that the local councils would pick up the tab for that because there were fewer self-funding patients in that cohort.
Mr Flanagan, I would like to follow on from Liam Kerr’s questioning about how we got from the morning of 9 November, at which point the board had made a unanimous decision, to the end of that day—I am not sure of the exact time—when that decision had been reversed, de facto, and the chief constable was asked not to return.