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Like Michael Matheson, I think that the visits are important. However, no matter what issue we are dealing with, whenever we go on a fact-finding visit, the organisations that we visit tend to orchestrate the visit carefully so that the...
On one of the Wednesday evenings after the meeting of the Parliament the committee could visit Hampden if nothing was happening there—which seems to be the case.
I say to anybody who has had occasion, as I have, to visit or be in the old Edinburgh royal infirmary recently that the new facilities will be like night and day compared to the present ones.
This is our opportunity to say, "Vive la différence." We must be ruthless in our dedication to achievement of the highest possible standards for this new Parliament.
He warned that"It would be a tragedy if St Andrews loses the character that makes it unique among Scottish towns, and exceptional even in comparison with all the other historic cities of Europe."
The key is to look forwards, not backwards. There is no point in comparing what we had three, five or 10 years ago, as the debate is about what we will have in the next three years.
Even with the proposed omission of the areas around Inverness, Highlands and Islands Enterprise has some 72 per cent population cover, compared with— Hang on. We have a point of order.
The committee will be aware that we have completed an interim report on women's offending and that we visited Cornton Vale with members of the Justice 1 Committee.
I suggest that we try to condense those into three, leaving a week free to ensure that everybody is able to participate fully in the proposed visits. I hope that everybody has responded to Ian Cowan about the visits.