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I am not going to waste public money by following every pound that is saved on one of the many thousands of budget lines in public service organisations.
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.