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As Alasdair Morgan indicated, we visited Nottingham. Far from feeling short-changed because we did not visit Lyon, Strasbourg or other European cities, we found our visit to a scheme that is comparable to that which is proposed for Edinburgh to be beneficial.
Resources exist and people have to get a return on them, but the system does not recognise increased demand unless there is a new funding flow. There is a mess in the culture.
Part of the reason why people are still saying that is that, although the COPFS gives information to its staff about new initiatives and new staff who are coming in, pressure arises from the need to absorb the changes and the new information.
Members will see in their diaries that we do not have a meeting next week and that it will not be possible for us to visit a council, a voluntary organisation or any part of civic Scotland that we may wish to visit because there will not be a meeting of the committee of conveners before then, and they are the ones who have to allow—in inverted commas—any visits to go ahead.
A better flavour would be given if we mentioned the visits. Yes—paragraph 13 might be supplemented by a reference to the visits that the committee made.
I am sure that there will be cross-party support for George Lyon's motion, just as there was cross-party support when we visited the new facilities at Craig Dunain in Inverness on Monday.