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People will think that poindings and warrant sales may be abolished only after three years, yet that date was plucked out of thin air. I do not think that Donald Gorrie was thinking of three years specifically—he could have said two years.
My colleague, Mr MacAskill, and I have not had a single opportunity since the summer recess to fulfil our duties to hold the Minister for Justice to account.
I know who I believe.Oddly enough, I was in Ireland during the recess and, purely in the interests of research, I had occasion to visit a few pubs, which were brilliant.
We keep hearing that it is past its sell-by date and we need to know what that sell-by date is, so that we know that the minister is making provision for the future.
However, I like to think that a new Presiding Officer would act quickly to change some of those parliamentary procedures immediately after summer recess. If he or she does not, we will get locked into many practices that will in time become set in stone.
That sort of thing would help; there is no need to specify a date. That picks up on Susan Deacon's point about getting greater advance knowledge of topics.
The electoral registers are always shockingly out of date. People underestimate the fact that, particularly in poorer areas with a high turnover of population, electoral registers can be 10 or 20 years out of date.
I ask colleagues whether they are prepared to take in private item 6, which will allow us to consider the evidence received to date for our inquiry into developments in the biomass industry.
We have not had the reply for the period of time that the date on it implies. We know to our cost that that sometimes happens when we get letters from ministers.