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The member will be aware that there are many strong differences of opinion on the future of Castle Tioram, although everyone agrees that the monument is extremely important and that the current situation is extremely difficult.
Will she acknowledge the distress that many parents experience because of the difficulty of getting appropriate educational support for children who have many difficulties?
Does he agree that the Executive's stinginess has led to the continuing state of chronic disrepair of many of our schools? Many phrases come to mind, but "No" would be the most suitable start to this answer.
In Scotland, 664 full-time-equivalent NHS podiatrists provide nearly 500,000 episodes of care every year to more than 300,000 patients. There are three times as many physiotherapists and twice as many occupational therapists and radiographers.
I want to look forward to a positive 21st century solution for a sector whose governance, in many cases, developed over many decades in the previous century.
A limited parliamentary inquiry will do nothing to alleviate public concerns because, since the Parliament voted not to have a public inquiry, many people out there do not trust the Parliament to put the matter right.
That doubt, which is also present in the 1992 act, has caused some practical difficulties for the existing councils, as many standard commercial contracts include a requirement for indemnities.
The simple answer is that such matters need to be formalised and made much more explicit.The reason why we all have so many questions about devolution is that the white paper mentions devolution only in the chapter on devolution.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is also involved.In Ireland, where doubts about the vaccine have been raised quite forcefully over the past couple of years, the immunisation rate has dropped and deaths from measles are occurring again. Like many medical decisions, such decisions are not free from risk on either side.