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It is my understanding that the kind of detailed investigation that we are talking about is not part of the European and External Relations Committee's work programme. I agree that we should certainly get more information.
Following our event in Dundee in June 2004, we agreed at our meeting on 15 September 2004 to have a rolling programme of events with the aim of raising awareness of the public petitions system among those groups and individuals who are traditionally marginalised from the political process.The committee held its second participation event on 29 November at t...
We can, at our away day, discuss how we should deal with petitions in terms of the committee's work programme. I want to return to the convener's point about reporters.
When that time comes, we can gather the important petitions together under our forward work programme and carry them forward.I agree that we have a duty to respond not just to what the Executive or we want to put on the agenda but to what the public wants.
In "A Partnership for a Better Scotland", the Executive has undertaken to"legislate to introduce strategic environmental assessment to ensure that the full environmental impacts of all new strategies, programmes and plans developed by the public sector are properly considered."
A genuine expectation was raised—not least by Scottish Water itself—that the substantial investment programme that has taken place at the plant over the last few years would result in a marked improvement to the odour problem.
Indeed, Margo MacDonald's column—which is in the Sunday Post, I believe—said something similar.Whenever a programme of work is announced that covers Scotland's six cities, each city will say that it wishes that it had had a greater share of the pot.
I am also happy to reflect on specific achievements: 20,000 modern apprenticeships; new youth courts and fast-track children's hearings; Scotland's first national park; the biggest school-building programme that Scotland has ever seen; and the purchase of the Health Care International hospital at Clydebank for the national health service.