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It would have been my pleasure to welcome you rather earlier, but circumstances have conspired against us. Never mind; we shall press on and get the job done.My first duty tonight is to welcome Des McNulty to the committee.
We have many problems in the Executive, but getting people to claim money is seldom one of them, particularly in the area to which Mr Ballard referred.
A row of civil servants came to apologise to me and were taken aback by my somewhat irreverent response, which was, "Now we know how to get on to the front page of the Edinburgh Evening News."
Sheriff Principal McInnes's suggestion was that for someone to get—and continue to get—the best legal advice, they almost have to plead not guilty right up to the trial.