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Is it not now time for the First Minister to show his commitment and leadership, to take part in constructive dialogue, and to set a date for the next anti-sectarianism summit?
Is he not ashamed of the SNP Government's housing record to date? How does he imagine that such figures will allow the implementation of the radical target to eradicate unintentional homelessness by 2012, which was set by our Government?
We will continue to build on the excellent work that has been undertaken in Scotland to date. As Margaret Curran well knows, we are currently discussing single outcome agreements for 2008-09 with all 32 councils.
Having laid out a process as well as a date of 2010 in our manifesto, by staying faithful to that we are not being tempted by narrow political advantage to take advantage of the unpopularity of Gordon Brown and Wendy Alexander.
I can assure Robert Brown that with record levels of investment in the health service, mental health will continue to receive the high priority that it has had to date. I am sure that that will reassure the member.
There have been 17 Labour motions and 16 Liberal motions to date in this Parliament. I will take great delight in asking those members what budgets they intend to cut to meet those demands.
Diabetes managed clinical network managers provide the Scottish diabetes group with regular updates on delivery and we are encouraged by the progress that has been made to date. The cabinet secretary will be well aware that diabetes is the main cause of blindness in people of working age and is responsible for half the non-traumatic lower limb amputations.
I am sure that bringing forward the payment date for schemes such as the LFA scheme and the beef calf scheme would help to address the serious cash flow problems in the industry, as would action by the minister to ensure that all crofters and farmers receive their single farm payments on time next month.
If we opt for weekly meetings, the dates will be in members' diaries. We must be rational and logical about what we do in committee.My concern is that if we move to fortnightly meetings and then discover that we have more business, the pressure will be on not to have an extra meeting.
However, on 27 June, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning had said:"We deliberately never state timeframes and say, ‘This will be delivered by a certain date,' … I do not want to give an end date".