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Thank you for your attendance—that was one of your easier visits. You know that I like making speeches—it is terrible that you would not let me do that.
I appreciate that Phil Gallie is getting excited. I visited Ayr yesterday. He should get more excited, because I fear that he will be in this Parliament for a very long time.The serious issue is that we are talking about a unique historic achievement—a Parliament in Scotland.
I suggest that the minister joins the First Minister on his visit to Aberdeen a week tomorrow to experience at first hand the gridlock, which causes so much misery for so many families and people who are just trying to drop the kids off at school or to get to work each day.
Will the First Minister commit his Executive to the same degree of positive realism that was demonstrated the other day by the visiting Conservative delegation, which he was so obviously keen to see and happy to welcome?
I have to confess that, because of other pressures, I have not gone into as much detail as I would have liked, but I now have a programme of visits to various schools and educational facilities.
I think that they were well pleased with their day's visit to Edinburgh. The Office of Fair Trading, which also had representatives at the meeting, is undertaking an investigation.
Five are matters that have been referred to the committee from elsewhere in the Parliament, although the item on Scottish prisons will be a discussion of the visits that members of the committee made last week to Low Moss and Longriggend.
Amendment 24, by agreement, withdrawn. Amendments 25 and 26 not moved. Amendment 51, in the name of Maureen Macmillan, is grouped with amendments 52, 1, 53, 2, 3, 27, 4, 54, 81, 82, 13 to 15, 46 and 16.
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