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The benefits can be seen in our streets and communities every day. We have new schools, new technology, new information technology, new access to computers for schoolchildren, new sports facilities for schools and new hospitals.
Earlier, we heard from ACPOS—you did not hear this because you were at the Communities Committee meeting—that the process is likely to be evolutionary and that existing systems, rather than a big new IT solution, will underpin the new procedures.
That is a good question. We are waiting for the latest data and it is possible that the Highlands and Islands might have qualified for objective 1 status had the EU stayed as an EU 15.
If no mandatory and default conditions are in force before then, the industry will be less regulated than it is at present and we will not get the new protections that have been built in to cover various provisions of the 2005 act.
I have a comment, although it might not necessarily be about what you were just saying. I am curious about new section 4A(6), where there appears to be an illustrative list.
Changes to the 1995 act are required as the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill replaces mental health guardians with a new form of welfare guardian.Once appointed, a guardian under the 1995 act is like any other guardian under the bill.