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We consider that to be a positive solution to a problem that is, at this stage, massive. Something like 330,000 people visit the Tam O'Shanter Experience—its situation has brought the issue to the table—every year.
Contractors did not have copies either, so the voluntary approach clearly is not working as it should. We need a new framework. That is clear from members' comments.
We are likely to receive requests to visit numerous sites, so if members agree, I am happy to agree the final site-visit timetable and agenda on behalf of the committee.
Much of the evidence that we have taken has been based on rural issues, and we have visited rural areas—I visited the Western Isles—as part of the lead-up to the inquiry.
The conveners group appears to be suggesting that the committee does not require to have a representative on the visit. I think, convener, that you can put a good case for our sending a representative.
I suggest that we do so on the basis of the recommendations in paragraph 26. On that point, convener, as fortune would have it, I am looking at paragraph 26.
The changes are needed as a result of other amendments that we have just debated. They take account of the new procedure whereby the Lord President may deprive a judicial officer of office, and the new power of the commission in respect of insolvency events.