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We should pass the petition to the European Committee, which can get in touch with the ministers, seek their views and get on with an inquiry without having to wait for us to receive a response and refer the petition perhaps a month from now.
The beginning of April is also the beginning of the new budget process, but we should have some time in April and May before we get into stage 2 of the budget process.
Margaret Smith would like to attend the visit, so it is only right and proper that, as for school visits, we invite parties with list members for the Lothians to send a representative, rather than have 20 representatives marching about the site.
The European dimension is very important. It became clear early on in the visit that it will be important for all the committees of the Scottish Parliament—every committee was represented on the visit—to keep in close touch with developments in the European Union.
However, as many of those women are involved with children's hearings—and we need to get more men on those boards—would it not be better to break that figure down into different kinds of public appointments lest we get complacent?
The Education Committee and the minister's predecessor visited Finland last year. Is the minister aware that a key aspect of Finnish education is the emphasis on the early years?