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GPs needed to be brought into the system more and to be made more accountable. The ability of GPs to strike people off their lists without having to explain that or to account for it to anyone is a problem that I have come across in the past.Many members have mentioned delayed discharge.
Before the Scottish Parliament was elected, particular Scottish aspects of issues such as education and transport were taken into account on the NDC's various working groups.
We are tackling the problem of skills shortages with the university for industry, individual learning accounts and the new learning centres that are springing up throughout Scotland.
If the bill is amended to make it apply across Scotland, there will have to be a concomitant amendment that does not lay a heavy duty on, for example, Shetland or Orkney.
Members are aware that, to give effect to the various decisions that were taken during and after the December agriculture and fisheries council, the Executive has had to lay a number of statutory instruments.
It is important to echo the comments that members have made about the need to have a long-term strategy and to take account of the importance of libraries to literacy, children, IT development and so on.