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Evidence that we have heard on this PAN and that we heard during our consideration of the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill, indicates that some of us are living in the past, and that, as Patrick Harvie pointed out, people do not trust the system.
Undoubtedly, things moved on as a result of the dispute: a number of issues were raised and a number were accelerated. All of us need to live with the consequence of the way in which things have changed as a result of the dispute.
I am, to be frank, appalled at the cavalier manner in which the minister dismisses one quarter of the Scottish population. 1,250,000 pensioners live in Scotland and water charges have disadvantaged them.
We are struggling with the question of whether one set of documentation can fulfil two functions: being the key instrument of providing financial accounting transparency; and fulfilling the management accounting function of measuring improvement and performance in public services. That has become a live issue for us in recent months—it can cut either way.
I have heard ideas about doctors being able to prescribe home insulation on the basis that it would save the health service a considerable amount of money, given the number of repeat illnesses that older people get as a result of living in damp houses. I have also heard about doctors being able to prescribe health clubs and homeopathy—that already happens i...
I am surprised that no one who is associated with the project seems to be living in the real world. If you do not have enough money in your purse, you cut your cloth accordingly.
If we want to apply the precautionary principle, I would have thought that we should first apply it to the lives of the fishermen involved. I quote from the MNWFA briefing on safety.