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They are out in the community, rather than dealing with the telephone and reception. Already, people are concentrating on doing to the best of their ability the jobs that they were trained to do.
Moreover, in two of our offices we share the premises, library and reception with the health and disability commissioner, and we work together on many issues that come our way.
We are still learning but, next year, we are looking to host a handful of resource-intensive major events and a much larger number of what we might call ordinary events, including receptions for constituents and committee events, which tend to be more to do with pulling in "ordinary citizens", as you called them.
However, I would like to finish on this note: although this Parliament does not have direct responsibility for international development, there are things that fall within our remit that are highly relevant, and I would like to make brief mention of the encouragement of development education in our schools, where there is surely a receptive audience. Childr...
We hope to involve the First Minister at an event in the morning and engage with the Parliament in the afternoon, and we are working on holding a reception or event in the evening to engage key stakeholders and disabled people from throughout Scotland.
Primary care has now evolved into a health team in which GPs work with community and practice nurses, midwives, reception staff, managers, pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and chiropodists to name but a few.
Is it not an appalling commentary on our society that it is sometimes necessary to place police officers on duty in hospital casualty reception areas? That is extremely worrying.What are we going to do about it?
I could not help thinking what my Tory members in Inverness would think of me going off with two Labour members when other MSPs were piling on to the bus to the Grampian reception. That is another example of how, in this Parliament, MSPs from all parties are capable of putting political hats aside and concentrating on issues.