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I welcome the chance to come to the committee today particularly because of the timing. Some of you might have heard the news item on "Good Morning Scotland" about the Aberdeen drop-in centre.
We will monitor all the bill's provisions, as we would with any new bill. Again, it is evident from earlier bills that, where there are problems, the new democracy operates by MSPs being asked by their constituents to take the problems into account.
Looking back, one can see that it would have been helpful to those visiting the project after the event if people had articulated what they were about in a formal way at the beginning.
Therefore, I propose to break down the debate on the first group into three mini-debates. The first debate will be on the new offence of paying for sexual services; the second debate will be on the new offences that relate to prostitution; and the third debate will be on the new offences relating to pornography.
Costs are not being imposed on new entrants; if there are additional costs, it will be because a new entrant thinks that there is an advantage in bearing them.
I want to ask about tribunals, mediation and dispute resolution. The bill proposes a new duty and a new power for parents to ask for independent mediation.
It is disgraceful that we have voted on entirely new motions on which there was absolutely no debateāI am thinking of stage 3 proceedings on the Licensing (Scotland) Bill in particular, when a trail of ants would go to the table at the back of the chamber to pick up the latest entirely new amendment as it came in.