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Given that evidence will be given in public to the Equal Opportunities Committee, perhaps some or all of us should be at that meeting so that we do not duplicate it with extra meetings, and so that we get the information that we require for our inquiry.
We can sit here and say that people expect the Parliament to be open, transparent and sleaze free, but we need to get those opinions directly from members of the public.
We have done what we promised and I hope that we will get some—I will not say that; I was going to ask for gratitude, but that might be asking too much.
This is a serious matter. If Mr Finnie wants to announce new arrangements, he should announce them to the Parliament and allow members to question him on them.
We have a whole project called modernising medical careers, which is addressing the issue of doctors' training in the new age and in the new circumstances.
First, it replaced poindings with the new diligence of attachment. Secondly, it set up the framework for the debt arrangement scheme, which is a new mechanism to help people to repay multiple debts while they are protected from enforcement.