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The matters in the proposed management standard are almost entirely clearly defined factual matters and are not, in the main, questions of degree; neither are they comparable to the type of balance and judgment that a private rented housing panel of three people will make to decide whether a house is in a good state of repair.
As colleagues will be aware, I joined the Communities Committee only recently, so I came to the bill and the debate surrounding it comparatively late. I express my thanks to the convener and committee members, who have been a great support.
However, scandals involving postal-vote fraud that have resulted in comments comparing the United Kingdom's election process to that of a banana republic are extremely damaging to our democratic process.
Is it true to say that the network gets almost 80 per cent of the Scottish roads maintenance budget? When compared with the maintenance budget for local roads?
We are fully aware that it creates an anomalous situation for some local government workers, particularly when compared with recently negotiated conditions in other public sector pension schemes.
I presume that you think that it will cost more than that because of knock-on effects; for example, if what we might call the lower-risk groups compare themselves through single status and make equal pay claims.