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If the corporate body then wants to add to that report, it can do so over the following few days. Even if you have to convene a meeting of the corporate body over the next few days in order to adopt that position, will you please do so?
I do not think that it was declined; I think that the assistance was reluctantly accepted but not followed up. Can you suggest why the assistance was not followed up?
In the majority of instances, Opposition parties were perfectly content with the second kind of statement—a statement followed by questions followed by a debate.
This is the committee's first meeting at consideration stage, following yesterday's decision by the Parliament that the bill's general principles be agreed and that it should proceed as a private bill.
I have no comment other than to say that that was perhaps a little difficult for us to follow. However, if the advice is that the proposed groupings will make for a sensible and better balance, we should agree to them.
Discussion on the petition has been delayed for many years pending responses from the health boards, prompted by the Executive's request for action following a report produced by the Scottish Executive short-life action group that was established in 2002 following a debate in the Parliament on ME.