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People with incapacity should be considered to be in a position to donate their brains to a brain bank. Such people should not be excluded totally from the bill.
She initiated the review, which the Executive moved forward with, although we are now slightly out of date. My understanding is that the Executive published a response as recently as—I think—19 January.
Should we raise that question with the Executive or should we just consider it at a later date, perhaps as part of our review? In part, I have just been reading the adviser's briefing and thinking out loud.
The proportion of people who are in fuel poverty fell from 35 per cent to 13 per cent in six years. We do not have up-to-date figures, but the situation will be better than that now.We know that movements in the wholesale markets are putting energy companies under considerable pressure.
Although such incidents will be considered on a case-by-case basis, I do not expect them to occur often.Further, the committee is aware that negotiations might have progressed after the submission dates for witness statements and rebuttals.
We have only one meeting of the committee left before the recess, and I want to put on record the fact that it is important to have a timeous post-council report to consider at that committee meeting. Otherwise, we may well be out of date and will be finding out about the results of that council only in September.
The correspondence that ministers received—of which I have a copy—refers to another out-of-date scanner at Gartnavel general hospital, but no action has yet been taken to replace that piece of equipment.
I have had two meetings with Nicol Stephen, the Minister for Transport, to discuss the matter. To date, our discussions have been on patients and visitors travelling to nursing facilities, but the member adds the dimension of staff travel to work.
The changes that we propose will ensure that eligibility is kept up to date and that no one falls out of the legal aid net because of the effects of inflation.The second issue is legal aid in relation to the new asylum and immigration tribunal and obstructive witnesses.