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The delegationcarried out a busy programme in New York and Washington DC. That programme included a visit to the General Assemblyof Maryland in Annapolis as well as an address by the Presiding Officer to theNational Conference of State Legislatures in Washington.
That status was removed from us as long ago as 1982, as the Presiding Officer will remember, but it is now, thankfully, available again.I shall concentrate on the new ways strand, or theme, of getting people to their full potential.
I remember the constant and consistent assurances from the Minister for Justice and from the chief executive of the SPS that things were going to get better. It was always said that they would get better, but they have simply got worse.
They deny the Exchequer £85 billion a year in resources. While new Labour wants to get tough on under-16s, it does not seem to want to get tough on the multimillionaires who are the real perpetrators of antisocial behaviour.
I was told that there would be no debate, because the Minister for Environment and Rural Development would give a statement to the Parliament in January and that that would give more opportunity for members to get more information.The minister did that.
I hesitate to say it again, but Jim Mather has two options when he gets up out of bed in the morning. He can either celebrate Scotland's successes and feel good about the country that he lives in, or he can talk them down, denigrate and misrepresent them.