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With respect to Michael McMahon—I know that he supports the change—the best way to get change is for people in this chamber to agree that it is needed, rather than for them to make political points, which will get us no further.
We asked if the Executive had asked about that, and it said that it had.We pointed out to the Executive a failure to comply with proper legislative practice under points 2 and 3, and what we considered to be defective drafting under point 4.
At the group's meeting yesterday, Graham Bryce talked about suicide among young men. If we think that a helpline is the only answer to that problem, we are really missing the point.
We need to uprate such issues in our minds; it is also a question of Scottish Parliament information centre staff and others being aware of those points—as I am sure that they are—and reflecting them in the briefing notes and papers that we get, so that such issues are considered from various points of view.
I hesitate to say it, but when politicians are talking about things that they call efficiency gains, they are often talking about real savings; it is easier to dress them up as efficiency gains.
What are the Scottish figures? They are £26 million over the next 10 years.The SSPCA has been replying to consultations on laying hens from the Farm Animal Welfare Council and others for the past seven years.
However, given all the new subjects that came into the curriculum, enterprise started to die. I remember saying at a meeting at Jordanhill that something would have to be done about the situation.