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I welcome committee members; the Auditor General for Scotland and his team from Audit Scotland; members of the Irish Committee of Public Accounts, who are visiting the Parliament today; and members of the media and the public.
However, given that I want to talk about why it should be everyone's responsibility to try to deal with the problems of knife crime, it is appropriate that a new face and a new voice should be raising the issue.
I hope that members get the impression that the bill is not just about a new procedure involving a preliminary hearing or a new culture of early disclosure.
One of our members from a rural authority seems to reckon that, if he were to be elected under the new system, he would have 33 schools in his new ward.
Amendment 37 makes it plain that those superior rights that are feudal—to charge feuduty, to create a new feudal estate and to enforce a feudal burden—are abolished for the ultimate superior.