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What plans does the cabinet secretary have to reduce waiting times for physio, to increase mobility, reduce pain and help people to get back to work? I agree strongly with the sentiments that are behind Mary Scanlon's question.
Although there has been some progress on water charges, the petition raises two or three other matters on which we should try and get satisfactory responses from the Government.
The Government keeps in regular contact with certain organisations, but it would be useful to get details on what it intends to do to engage with civic organisations throughout Scotland.
More than a quarter of a million stop and searches have been carried out in Strathclyde alone, which disclosed that fewer people are carrying and more people are getting caught. The people who are caught are getting longer sentences, which is as it should be.
The third aspect of the programme is how we invest in the economy to get Scotland back to work and raise the rate of growth in Scotland through financial autonomy.
It is not a great idea to put people who have chronic illnesses in the position of having to pay for prescriptions that they cannot afford in order that they can get the medicines that they require.
I have a serious question for Michael McMahon: what do you want us to do now? I get the impression that, to put it simply, we should ask the Scottish Government to get everyone who has an interest in the issue in a room and to obtain a piece of paper that outlines the best way forward.