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I think that I said on my first appearance before the committee that my desire would always be to de-ring fence, or to remove that control, where possible.
However, I support Roseanna Cunningham on amendment 17. Amendment 17 is a de minimis matter. I am not sure that the minister will be able to deal with it in terms of existing guidelines or contracts of employment for sheriffs, but I am agnostic on the necessity for it.Amendment 19 is interesting.
Budget Process 2006-07 The next item of business is a debate on motion S2M-3746, in the name of Des McNulty, on behalf of the Finance Committee, on its fifth report in 2005, on stage 2 of the 2006-07 budget process.
It is not about restricting the opportunities for children to be placed in a good home on general grounds, whereby certain types of family are de facto unsuitable. That would be discriminatory and, in modern Scotland, unacceptable.
I am aware of the work of MSPs in general in pursuing this issue, and in particular that of the Justice 2 Committee and Des McNulty MSP.The convener asked whether the bill was inevitable.
The guidance on the comprehensive spending review must integrate equality issues because, ultimately, that is what will make a difference in the presentation of the portfolio chapters. I want to return to points that Des McNulty and Elaine Murray made. In doing so, I will echo some of Ailsa McKay's comments.
The Waverley line is probably one of the most difficult projects to define. Strictly speaking, it is a cul-de-sac at present—a railway siding—but it has connectivity and raises major issues associated with the capacity of the national rail network, which brings it into the national context.
We have to ensure that the system rewards institutions that make the extra investment and provision to cater for their disabled students' needs in ways that widen access for those students—the system must not penalise institutions for making that provision—and we have to ensure that de facto claims for disabled allowance are reduced.
Several potato producers have made significant progress on the total volumes that they will supply and on the de minimis prices at which they will sell, which has narrowed the variation in those contracts.We must improve best practice on more effective collaborative food chain operations and extend it throughout the Scottish agriculture industry.
Schedule 2 to SSI 2005/558 contains no provision to cover what might be called de minimis cases in which a very small property is being let for a notional sum.