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It is an interesting petition and it is good that the wider aspects that we heard about when we went on our pre-legislative visits have been brought to our attention.
Many colleges have difficulty in funding courses to get people on to the bottom rung of the ladder, so that they can get qualifications of different sorts.
I suppose that the Executive's motive for omitting that right from the bill is to prevent prisoners from endlessly trying to get from prison custody to hospital.
With a population of 120,000 to 130,000, it is difficult to get the Borders scheme to the top of the list, because other schemes, involving larger populations, somehow get in ahead of it.
The specific care settings are defined in subsection (2) of the proposed new section. Amendment 26 makes a minor change, consequential to the introduction of the new section.