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In areas such as the Borders, people, including elderly people, will have to get buses that do not yet exist—travel issues have not been resolved—or drive in their cars to visit elderly relatives.
You have suggested Christmas as a deadline. We might get an opportunity to meet you in the near future because our Parliamentary Bureau has agreed that the committee can have its requested visit to Brussels—this is the first time that committee members have heard that news.
In the two months that I have had the community safety portfolio, I have been very encouraged by what is happening. My experience over the past 26 years has been that the police often get left to drive every initiative there is.