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What has been suggested will require tremendous co-ordination, which might add to the many challenges with co-ordination that already exist in our criminal justice system.
SEPA is represented on the Scottish pollution control co-ordinating committee, which is a forum at local authority level, and on other groups with local authorities.
My next question is entirely for the Scottish Futures Trust. The SFT is responsible for co-ordinating billions of pounds-worth of public investment in major infrastructure projects.
However, I agree that it would be good to take a co-ordinated approach within a local authority area, in order to map the available services and to identify gaps, and to implement a co-ordinated and robust funding system to fill those gaps.
It is the kind of project that the EU has funded in the past, through its various co-ordinated schemes involving several laboratories around big sea areas.
You spoke about the importance of mainstreaming and co-ordination on Europe within Government. Do you feel that there is a parallel role for the committee?