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However, I have grave concerns about the new set-up. My comments are not meant to be any reflection on Ross Finnie's commitment to his job, which is absolute.
You have been chief executive for 18 months or so, and you came in as a new broom with new ideas. However, when I look at the submission, I do not see too many new ideas.
Amendment 73, by agreement, withdrawn. Sections 25 and 26 agreed to. Section 27—Release on licence: life prisoners Amendment 98 is in a group on its own.
It summarises areas in which the committee expressed an interest in the past and during the visit to Brussels, when some interesting presentations were made to us.
We want—in addition to a formal meeting of the committee—to carry out some fact-finding visits in Dalry. Perhaps the best way to do that, given that Dalry is a good two-hour drive from Edinburgh, would be to go to Dalry on Monday and carry out the fact-finding visits in the afternoon and early evening.
This does not affect the right of any Member representing a constituency or area to raise a matter on behalf of a constituent. School visits Where schools visit the Parliament, constituency Members should be invited to attend as a matter of course.
On a technical point, given that the new petition homes in on the key point about the 100-year closure order and timescales, I would be inclined to close petition PE652 and keep the new one live.