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If the committee is putting to Parliament a report that says that we must get beyond the usual suspects, we must get beyond the usual suspects ourselves.
I thank the minister, the convener, members and clerks of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee, and the members of this committee, all of whom helped to get us through the stage 2 consideration.
Getting it right will take a bit longer but in the process we can prove that the new Parliament offers a new, more robust approach to resolving difficult issues and building a real consensus."
Those new tenancies reportedly include new, unfavourable, terms, such as rent in advance, large deposits, and unreasonable, unexpected and novel improvements of dilapidation requirements.
Members may not agree with me, but I get annoyed if I wait to ask a question but someone gets in before me and completely changes the topic to another within the broad parameter.
The only way round that would be to develop a brand new computer system that would allow us to select assessment from an enormous bank so that no one could predict what they would get.
I do not want to say to the minister that, by stage 3, there should be full provisions for a new system, with all the details set out in the bill, if that means that we get things wrong.
From our experience of dealing with more than 700 businesses, once we get them started on cost savings we move them up the ladder towards new products and new markets.