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Alison Harris mentioned Nicola Sturgeon’s visit to Ireland. I think that the last major politician to visit Ireland before Nicola Sturgeon might have been the previous chancellor, George Osborne.
To go back briefly to women’s safety in relation to online business, if the customers are criminalised, they will not give details that would enable women to screen them as part of their safety measures.
There is a real sense that a lack of value is being placed on lives, and a worry that lives will continue to be lost due to the inequitable access, particularly to health screening and interventions, and a lack of will to progress with practice that makes a difference.
Before we get answers, I want to make sure that Monica Lennon and Claudia Cowie are back. I cannot see them on the screen. Interruption. They are there now.
However, undoubtedly, there is a large cohort of blind and partially sighted people who, if they could register with the local authority to receive their voting card by email or whatever electronic method, would be able to use screen readers on their phones. In that way, they could read those emails and know about the election.
As such, there is preventative stuff that needs to happen, which requires funding and a specific focus on deprivation, but that equally follows through into treatment and things such as early diagnosis and screening. We have both of those things to an extent.
At this end, your picture is coming and going a little, but we will hang on in there and we will, I hope, be able to keep you on screen. Members have quite a number of questions, so I ask for succinct questions and answers.
Paul Little, Matthew Sweeney, David Belsey and Diane Stockton are joining us remotely—I can now see your faces on the screen, which is good—and John Edward and Alastair Sim are with us in the committee room.