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Are we having a break for lunch? Yes, but you are getting only five minutes, Keith; the rest of us are getting half an hour.At the previous meeting, I said that those sessions would mean a substantial commitment.
The problem is long term, wide ranging and complex. It has taken us a long time to get into this mess and it will take us a long time to get out of it—if that is even possible—or to get over it.Action is needed in a wide range of areas and actions must be planned far into the ...
If such a letter is not forthcoming, members can lodge written questions and get the answers that way. In fact, I think that it was Euan Robson who quite rightly raised the issue of getting those figures.Bill Aitken made very fair points about automatic disqualification; indeed, I had not considered the totting-up pr...
In the Catalan Parliament, if it is accepted that a member has a good enough issue for an interpellation, he gets 10 minutes to speak on it, the minister gets 10 minutes to reply, the member gets another five minutes and then the minister gets another five minutes.
We suffer, however, from a general problem in life sciences, as in other areas: when we invent something in Scotland, often somebody elsewhere makes it. Much of the downstream activitygets done furth of Scotland, and we need to address that.
As a result of some pretty enlightened thinking in the 1960s and 1970s, Glasgow, with its expressway and its motorway network, is easy to get through. However, getting there is highly problematical.