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However, I add that we see prevention as a question or a classic wicked problem. It is hard to pin down a definition of prevention and work out exactly what to do about the problem, as it is understood.
I am on the record in the Parliament time and again as opposing ring fencing, but when the member's party insists on a council tax freeze, de facto it partly fetters elected councillors' discretion.
However, since Des McNulty raised the question of education, this is probably a suitable point at which to remind him that we have built or refurbished 330 schools.
The member has just illustrated why one would not try to pin down every circumstance. The facts and circumstances of every case determine what is reasonable.
However, I caution him that when he introduces regulations, which are the right way to proceed, they must pin things down so that any consultation is meaningful.
Those are things that I am happy to pin my name to. “Gerrard, Palmer, Skirving, Thomas Muir and Margarot, These are names that every Scottish man and woman ought to know.
Well, perhaps Jackie Baillie is rivalling him these days but, in the figures that I have seen, Des McNulty seems to have been responsible over a period of time.
For my sins, I was one of the project managers for the clearing house automated payment system—CHAPS—which introduced electronic signatures 32 years ago.