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On the evidence of the publicity at the time, the First Minister seems to have packed his bags to head off on a wee holiday. I do not begrudge him that holiday, although I notice that he is not in the chamber today, which is a pity.
I have a reason for knowing when the stage 3 debate will be held—it will be held on the first afternoon that we are back and we are on holiday after tomorrow. What mechanism could we use to intimate that we do not like something?
I ask you to bear in mind the fact that timetables for the ferry service need to get into holiday brochures in early autumn so that people can use it properly next year.
All of us will have felt that dreadful worry and concern at who might have been hurt by this atrocity: interns who have worked at the Parliament; relatives and colleagues on holiday; friends and family in their offices in New York or Washington.
One problem is that Stephen Boyle had been away on holiday, which meant that he and Professor Ashcroft had not been able to co-ordinate as much as they would have liked.
And there's nowhere to go, and no one to complain to, and there's no money in the bank that can be used to buy some respite care, because you're down to one income anyway."
Winnie Ewing will be the expert, but it is my understanding that the environmental impact assessment regulations date well back, to the 1980s, and were improved and updated in the late 1990s.