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Indeed, the need for far more supported close working between the different professions that deal with the issues that he and others have dealt with all their working lives is ever more apparent to ministers.
We still do not have an outcome for the petitions and, in my view, they are very much live. Keeping the petitions open provides us with a way of monitoring the eventual outcomes.
I would like all the comments from last year that are included in the paper to be kept as live comments. At the very least, we can try to track through them, but we are in the same situation as every committee—we have to work with the system.
We share the House of Commons Health Committee's concern about the impact that obesity has on people's lives and we recognise the huge effort that is required to turn the tide of years of physical inactivity and poor diet.
Ultimately, our objective has to be to reduce reoffending and to ensure that those young people get a better start to their adult lives than it is clear they had as youngsters.
Does he agree that a period of eight months is utterly unacceptable if we want families and communities to escape the impact of drug misuse on their lives? I recognise that problems remain in some parts of Scotland.
Does the First Minister agree that the law should severely punish any person who attacks an emergency worker who is acting to save lives and that there is an urgent need to legislate on that?