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Does the SQA mean that exam results will be issued on Tuesday 14 August, or that the marking will be finished on that date, which seems a bit late? No date is given for the announcement of results.
I am sure that we can consider alternative meeting dates, although they will be quite difficult—I will ask the clerk whether it is essential that everybody be present.
If we lose that day, we will be unable to introduce a bill into Parliament in the required time scale and that would render useless all our work to date. Convener, you will have my support and the support of the SNP on that matter.
But the reality is that, historically, a vast amount of our legislation has commenced on an appointed date, rather than just when it receives royal assent.
Here we are, six years later, being told that there is a continuing dialogue; yet, one of the bodies that the Executive funds has said that previous approaches dating way back to 2001 have, to date, proven to be pretty ineffective.