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The challenge is to find good practice and to ensure that it is shared and that other practitioners follow it. Another issue is the ability of young people to access youth work provision.
I would support any policy that ensures that disabled young people have an equal opportunity to volunteer. I look forward to following the committee's inquiry and to reading its conclusions.
If it is up to each committee to decide what to do but we say that a particular course of action is best practice, we are accusing a committee that does not follow that course of action of not following best practice.
If the minister told his north Lanarkshire constituents that, as of the following week, they would need to travel to Aberdeen to access a consultant, I can imagine the reaction that would be felt there.
As you know, the Scottish Executive's draft budget this year indicates its intention to follow up the European year of disabled people and to continue to work with disability organisations to promote the rights and participation of disabled people in society.
If minds are closed to that call, consultation genuinely is, as Nicola Sturgeon said, a sham. I call Jackie Baillie, to be followed by the minister. Thank you for allowing me to speak, Presiding Officer.
We can assume that David McLetchie's name would be listed second, followed by a three-way split for the third place among the Greens, the SSP and others.