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I welcome from the Electoral Commission Sir Neil McIntosh, the commissioner; Dougie Wands, the principal officer; and Kate Sullivan, the assistant director of policy. I welcome you to your first visit to the committee. I know that you have prepared some opening comments.
They definitely need support. I remember visiting a young boy who was put into care in London after he had been found sleeping on the streets because he could not get along with his stepfather in Edinburgh.
Yesterday, Karen Whitefield, Alex Neil and I were on visits to drugs organisations—particularly the health board ones—in Ayrshire and Arran, where concern was expressed that there was no co-ordination of resource allocation.
Seriously though, during our Local Government Committee visits round the edges of Scotland, we have sometimes been rather worried about accepting cups of tea and meals.
Consider a whole class group—such as the one that visited me in the Parliament— leaving school at the end of fifth or sixth year, hoping to further their education.
I know from first-hand experience of visiting dairy farmers, pig farmers and sheep farmers in my constituency that they all have crises on their hands.