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I welcome them again to the Scottish Parliament. I hope that they find their visit useful and productive. I also hope that there will be a constructive dialogue between us at some point on a range of issues of mutual interest.
We are still trying to fix a date to visit the Northern Ireland Assembly.Written evidence has been coming in steadily over the past few weeks, and we will now begin to work on that.
I support what Christine Grahame has just said. I remind the convener of our visit to the Glasgow sheriff courts. The people we met there showed a complete lack of understanding of why the Scottish Parliament should have two justice committees.
I would like to re-empower the teaching profession and give teachers back some of the power that they used to have in influencing policy—I would like to do that at the beginning of a whole new political era in Scotland. Here we are in a wonderful new building, with a brand-new...
The message that is conveyed by the latest evidence is that we cannot afford to be complacent and we must take action to reduce pollution levels even further.
The lowest rates of breastfeeding are in Lanarkshire NHS Board area, with a figure of 26 per cent, and Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board area, with a figure of just over 27 per cent.