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I keep looking to see whether I am.I was interested to note that Nicky Oppenheimer of the De Beers diamond firm was quoted as saying that the problem with Africa is that it is suffering from "donation fatigue".
The Commission is eager to try to defuse the problem and, by using a de minimis approach and other processes, not to require strictest application of competition rules in remote areas where such issues are a particular problem.
In Mull, I carried out an exercise that was similar to the one that we carried out for the energy sector. The cri de cœur from the people of Mull was that they wanted to be meshed in and for Caledonian MacBrayne, VisitScotland and Historic Scotland to play a more important part with them.
They also discount the growing number of people wishing to de-transition, a phenomenon that at the very least mandates careful study and a moratorium on affirmation only approaches".viiWritten Submission to the Committee’s Call for Views from The Christian Medical Fellowship (Committee Paper EHRCJ/S6/21/8/2, Annexe F)
Consent
The issue of consent was also ...
Some returning officers are still working on the fine details of the precise timing of their activities. The thing that pins us all down is the requirement to start the referendum count by 4 pm on the Friday.
I know that there is a political point to be made—that a report has been produced and we should pin our colours to the mast on every single issue—but no country would detail at this stage how everything will be delivered on every single issue.
She seemed critical of the size of the consultation document, which is a bit like spinning on the head of a pin. We are holding meetings on reshaping older people’s care the length and breadth of Scotland.
Items such as the Scottish Public Pensions Agency work could be attached to the finance minister, and a second category could be more focused on what the Government is doing specifically on sustainable growth and promoting enterprise in business. I want to pin down that point. There has been accelerated spending because of the crisis that we are in, but is ...
I tried to prise some substance from his speech, which was larded with metaphors, but he kept dancing on the head of a process pin. I think that he has misjudged the mood of the Parliament in this debate.I turn to Bill Aitken.
I do not think that Alex Neil heard the evidence that the business managers gave when we pinned them down on a straightforward matter, which took up much time.