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The evidence of that exists in the various league tables and other methods of quality assessment that compare Scottish universities with universities in the United Kingdom on a common basis.
Brian Monteith, Cathy Peattie and Nicola Sturgeon visited it. Several of the questions that Nicola Sturgeon and I asked this morning came from our visit to Riverside.
Networking and contacts would be among the benefits of attending, which should be compared with what happens with videoconferencing or other ways of keeping in touch.
From time to time, one must wonder about the value of such debate compared with the value of some of the other things that the Parliament could be doing.
We asked a series of specific questions and I am grateful that 30-odd members of the public gave us their views—of course, that was not many compared with the 54,000 who participated in the consultation on smoking.