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Yes. I have a number of follow-up points. On Michael McMahon's point, the regulatory work that will necessarily fall to the Executive—such as monitoring to ensure that the process works and that we get the best from the tender—will incur costs.
I suspect that the issue comes back to education, training and capacity building of the groups that can best feed into that process, so that they can see the end point; however, they need to see the beginning as well.
The performance of our universities is one example, as our academic achievement is third best in the world—not per head, simply third best—as measured by the OECD.
Again, I thank the First Minister for his answer, but I point out to him that the president of ACPOS said that, in his opinion, air-guns should be subject to the same laws as all firearms.
Nonetheless, I accept that there are entirely genuine desires behind the proposal to establish the group. At this point, I welcome Nora Radcliffe, who has just arrived.
The suggestion is that we move to fortnightly meetings. The only point that I want to make relates to the week after the spring recess, for which no meeting is scheduled.