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We should decide on the basis of what is in the best interests of world peace. That is why John McAllion's amendment deserves the support of the entire Parliament.
In the past, there have been attempts to find a solution that gets financing off the balance sheet rather than an approach that achieves the best solution, be it best value or whatever.
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Date answered:
19 March 2002
Yet, in this debate, Frank McAveety has spent the best part of his speech criticising us for raising an issue that is within the competence of the devolved Scottish Parliament.
It also offers us an opportunity to examine the very real effects that the SNP's proposals for a local income tax would have. At best, the nationalists' attacks on council tax and their proposals for a local income tax are disingenuous.
No parliamentary committee, even with the best of intentions, would carry any public confidence in its inquiry or in its conclusions for the simple reason that we are all politicians and are not qualified to undertake such an inquiry.
We want something to delay that, to allow a client to obtain advice on whether a debt payment programme would be the best way forward. That would save the client's house.