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I have to say that Eddie Barnes spoke to me and asked me what the report said. I said that he would need to get and look at the evidence that was public so far; that he could decide what evidence had been led; and that the document that we dealt with last week was private and would be discussed further this week.
If, for example, a complaint goes to the standards commissioner but is ruled out by the commissioner at stage 1 and the standards commissioner or the SPCB has made a ruling, the matter will never get as far as the committee. In those circumstances, will it not be a matter for people other than members of the Standards Committee?
I hope that over the next few weeks, as their policy becomes clearer, we in Scotland will get a chance to develop our policies, which will ensure that Scottish universities and Scottish students stay, as I said, ahead of the game.
The minister will realise that in remote areas in Scotland—including my constituency—we have huge problems getting health service professionals. He will also understand that the role played by immigrants from other countries has underpinned the health service in the past.
I do not quite understand how Historic Scotland gets to the point that it reaches in the final paragraph of its letter of 17 November to Mr Wilson, because I understood that Stirling Council was on the point of disposing of the building.
Fish might well be able to swim in the North sea but, unlike the First Minister, they cannot get to Salzburg. Instead of patronising our fishermen and telling them that they are doing terribly well when they are manifestly not, why does the First Minister not shake off his complacency and use his new position in Regleg to fight for our fishermen's interests...
We need to uprate such issues in our minds; it is also a question of Scottish Parliament information centre staff and others being aware of those points—as I am sure that they are—and reflecting them in the briefing notes and papers that we get, so that such issues are considered from various points of view.
There are good reasons for that, one of which is to try and get the view of the committee without too much party-political interface and without members having to grandstand on the issues.