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The committee will be aware that, at a members' business debate that was initiated by Gil Paterson, the Deputy Minister for Justice said that the Scottish Executive would produce an action plan within 90 days, based on "Towards a Just Conclusion".
At the Glasgow meeting, we discussed slight additions and changes to the draft report. Has a final report been produced? If so, I do not think that I have a copy.
We held an excellent inquiry on the national arts companies; we asked questions and got answers that people did not necessarily want to give. We will produce a report that will be useful to the future of those companies.
I would like, in passing, to congratulate Sam Galbraith and his team, and in particular the civil servants behind him, on an extremely difficult series of negotiations, which has produced a conclusion that should give satisfaction to everyone.
I am not sure that any of them turned up, but we did invite them and we sent them details of the documents that were produced. Sometimes it is easier if two committees examine an issue.
Yes, it will. At the moment we are producing a draft. The draft will then go to the parties for further consultation, before it goes to the Parliament to be agreed to or not agreed to.
The four reports that members have before them are deliberately designed to stand alone. The committee could have produced an omnibus report and an omnibus determination covering all the determinative powers under the act, but for the following reasons, we decided not to adopt that approach.First, it is important that each determination is capable of being ...
There is an old cliché about taking a horse to water and making it drink. Successive Governments produce quite good services for people, as does local government, but the services often do not get to the people who are meant to receive them.
In all these things, we are constrained by what the Executive produces—what is in the public domain. The paper is in draft state at the moment, and Ross Burnside and I are going over it.