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Eight days later, I met the Minister for Health and Community Care and I put to him the following argument, which goes to the nub of the debate: the health boards cannot deliver the solutions because they do not have the powers.
Let us end this farce today by defeating the bill. Dear oh dear—follow that.I welcome today's debate on the general principles of the Local Governance (Scotland) Bill, because the bill marks an important step forward in the modernisation of local government in Scotland.
Will the member give way? I will not.I cannot follow the logic of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP's argument for independence in Europe, which they share with other increasingly irrelevant separatist movements.