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Tom McCabe said:"Action is proceeding in a joined-up way on a wide front, across the responsibilities of the Scottish and Westminster Administrations."—Official Report, 3 June 2004; c 8998. That comment was made during an earlier debate.
If he had listened—and he can check this in the Official Report—he would have heard that I said that I sympathised with many of the points that Paul Martin made in relation to the young people who go into the children's hearings system in situations involving violence or sex offences.
It is therefore important that a resubmitted petition is considered in the same way as any other petition is considered.Dialogue usually takes place between officials and petitioners on a petition, and that is also the case for a resubmitted petition.
I say that as a serial attender, or perhaps even offender.I am proud that the Parliament has this important facility to bring to the attention of ministers and their officials issues that can often be lost in the broad sweep of general legislation.
You mentioned the need for a purpose clause. The official line seems to be that such a clause might be restrictive and that it would introduce to the bill an element of vagueness that is not currently there.