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It acknowledges the public health issues in relation to businesses that carry out tattooing and skin piercing in situations in which there is no formal training or guidance on best practice and there are no agreed standards of hygiene or clinical practice and no agreed standards for inspection.The changes will come into effect from December 2006.
That is a bit of an issue. We have done the best that we can in the context of that constrained format to make sure that people are clear about the work that the committee has done.
On aggregate, the people who are responsible for the instruments might be a wee bit embarrassed by the committee's consistent and persistent criticism of their best efforts. We are trying to help. We have had a response from the Executive since the legal briefing was produced, so you are quite right to raise that point.
I raised the issue of tracking young people to ensure that training was being provided effectively and that best value was being obtained. There is no reference to that in Scottish Enterprise's report.
Neither is it in the interests of Parliament for us to fail to do our job properly.We shall therefore put on record the fact that we are not satisfied that this is the best way to address legislation. We shall write to the Executive and, as part of our consideration of procedures, we can decide whether the system can be formalised.
Does the minister appreciate that, in my constituency of Banff and Buchan, one of our best white fish ports was laid up by the banks in the past few days and that one of our best fish processing factories is in administration?
Should they do it through huge council tax increases or by cutting services to the public and sacking workers? I thank Colin Fox for his best wishes and extend my best wishes to him and his party.