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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.
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.
I will ask a couple of general questions about the New Opportunities Fund and the new body, which I understand will rather unimaginatively be called the big fund.
Those are not my words, but the words of the Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, Allan Wilson, writing in the Sunday Herald on 26 December. I could not agree more.