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Clearly, there is a desire for the cables to be buried underground, and the petitioner has indicated that the costs of that might not be as high as was previously assumed. I wonder whether we could get a comment from the Government on that issue.
We must get the Government's view on the petition, but at the same time we must ensure that the Health and Sport Committee has the petition for its inquiry, because it is meaningful.
I thank the committee for its forbearance in letting me speak to the petition now so that I can get away to another commitment.I will briefly rehash the issues.
It is interesting that there is not a huge difference between the number of points of order made in 2003 and the number made in 2007—in percentage terms at least. I get the sense that the people who are most aggrieved in both instances are the Government of the day.There are issues about the use of points of order.
Today's paper is just a quick summary of what happened at the seminar.Once First ScotRail had deigned to get half the members and half the delegates to the seminar considerably later than was originally anticipated, the day went well.
If an establishment does not have those facilities, it should not get the licence, and we want that to be specified at the outset, especially in the type of pubs that Mr Martin was commenting on earlier.
Yesterday, we saw that employment is at a higher level than in the rest of the UK, that economic inactivity is at a lower rate than the rest of the UK, and that unemployment in Scotland is falling, whereas it is rising in the rest of the UK.