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The opportunity to question and hold the Executive to account is limited in any case, although sometimes an awful lot of questions need to be asked to get an answer.
Clearly, the details of the start and completion dates are a matter for Fife Council and any major building work at the school has to take account of the need to minimise disruption of daily teaching and learning.
As with each of those bills, we are publishing a draft for wide consultation. We will take account of responses to the consultation before we introduce the bill to Parliament early in the new year.
Their interests cannot be neglected, but must also be taken into account. In the jargon, they are stakeholders, too.We must find a mechanism for bringing those communities together.
That raises the other point that Michael McMahon mentions about who will accept responsibility and who will be accountable. In those circumstances, as with a range of other matters that are delegated to local decision makers, the local authority would be held to account.
That will give us powers to control diffuse pollution and will mean that we can take account of all the inputs, not just the point source discharges of which the present legislation allows us to take account.
There will be a much lesser adjustment in December, to take account of the cash flow. The Commission now understands the timing issue much better and understands why we make the payment in March.