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That was evidenced strongly in the visits that we undertook. I certainly had discussions with young people on the streets who were, arguably, engaged in antisocial behaviour.
Some committee members had the privilege of coming out to Polmont to meet YouthLink Scotland and some of the young men who are working with you, which we appreciated. We found the visit useful. Your comments about what happens when someone comes out of an institution and how we might support them were amplified during that visit.
However, in the discussions that we had when we visited the High Court in Glasgow and Edinburgh, some disbelief was expressed that those dates could be fixed with such certainty.
I was fisheries spokesman for the third-world countries and visited 28 of them in that capacity. John Hume and I introduced the budget line for minority languages, of which there are 33 in our European Union.
However, I want to make some points about prisons, of which I have visited three in the past year—HM Prison Edinburgh, HM Establishment Cornton Vale and HM Prison Aberdeen.