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Most services are delivered through the voluntary sector and they often use volunteers. When we visited the Hamilton contact centre, the two women on the door were volunteers.
The deaf are just as interested in politics, current affairs and literature as any hearing people. When I was MP for Hamilton, I visited the deaf school, and the children then paid a visit to the House of Commons.
If the area officer has a problem, as I do with what is happening in the Borders, we make frequent visits. I have been to the Borders at least once a fortnight to visit schools and meet officials.
When there is a limited amount for investment and somebody is screaming for new machines, new equipment or a new production line, it is a huge challenge to use that money for training.
Amendment 88 inserts into the bill a new section after section 31; the new section itself inserts proposed new section 298A into the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
It seems to me that that combination of legislative commitment and financial investment is the surest sign yet that we have a new politics in Scotland. That new politics is working.