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Cathie Craigie's all-party group on sign language is being launched, and we could ask whether this is a matter on which it could pressure the SPCB. We are a new Parliament, and we should have best practice in access for everybody.
Will the deputy minister assure me that the need to attract new graduates into teaching by offering substantial grants for their postgraduate diploma year will be taken fully into account in the consultation?
(S1O-264) The Deputy Minister for Highlands and Islands and Gaelic (Mr Alasdair Morrison): We shall be publishing a new strategy at the turn of the year and an important objective will be to boost tourism in the remoter areas.
We could say that everybody should have the right to anonymity. However, as we know from our visits to prisons around the country, sex offenders are separated from other prisoners and are treated differently by society.
I saw it as a courtesy invite from the committee—a setting in train of what I hope will be a good working relationship, given the parameters within which we all work. Beyond that, Susan Deacon's visits to the committee will result from specific issues that arise in our work load.
Although we want there to be parity of esteem, the Parliament is new, shiny and glossy; local government's image is not new, shiny and glossy, so people's focus perhaps will be more on the Parliament.