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Several committee members are going to visit Social Security Scotland in Dundee on Monday, so I feel that we are now armed with a lot more information in order to ask pertinent questions.
The new women’s national facility will open in the summer, and two smaller units for women—one in Dundee, which I visited recently, and one in Glasgow—have already been established.
It is important that there is support. That takes me back to my visit in Inverness; it is important that organisations are supporting local communities to bring forward projects and get them through the feasibility stage and on to submission stage.
We are hopelessly short of software engineers and we are really short of people to go into the hospitality sector. I was visiting a business in Kilmarnock that is really short of qualified electricians.
I very much understand the petitioner’s argument. I visited Culloden a few weeks ago, and I am aware that a lot of people in the area are talking about the persistent calls for development from developers.
I can talk about that now. The convener was with me on a visit to an organisation in Edinburgh that works with some of the people who we hope the bill will help.