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Well, I think that the committee, too, needs the best and most up-to-date advice before coming to a view.11:00 That leads to my second, and related, question.
That is to be welcomed, but the fact is that services—be they post offices, banks, buses and, more recently, rural schools—are on the decline in many rural communities.
However, where help is needed, duty holders must be assured that the advice they receive is up to date, competent and sound. The sheriff is clear that third-party certification of fire risk assessors is a very good way to ensure that that is so.
I welcome the statement, which brings us up to date with the action that is being taken to combat the Ebola outbreak, and I thank the cabinet secretary for an advance copy of it.
Could these additional costs and the mechanism by which they were scrutinised have come at a later date when the figures were available so that we could have had greater clarity about them?
We would have brought in more central Government bodies, but the act came in only a few days before the data collection date, so we were able to go for only the biggest bodies this time.