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A series of seminars and presentations have been held and there have been visits to various local areas. A great deal of work is going on.Mary Scanlon asked about staffing.
I have great sympathy with what Rhoda Grant said. When the committee visited the north to take evidence, we heard tales of local people's plans being scuppered by non-governmental organisations.
If members agree, I shall keep that invitation on hold, so that, when we begin to consider that subject, we can make that visit. Is the committee agreed?Members indicated agreement.
I think that we should respond positively to both those organisations, but arrange the visits when they would fit more appropriately with what we are discussing.
It would be done partly through those groups and partly through our visits. Our visits will not involve going off to nice conferences in places such as Milan, but going to places such as Whitfield, Easterhouse and Pilton—although I do not know Edinburgh that well.
During the past week, I have had the opportunity to visit all the main buildings in the parliamentary complex and to assess them for access for disabled peopled.
Will he take the First Minister and others to places such as Arbroath, which David McLetchie and Iain Duncan Smith will visit tomorrow? I have no doubt that those communities will find that visit uplifting.