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It is important to remember that many deafblind people may not be totally deaf or totally blind and that people with deafblindness have varying skills, abilities, aspirations and requirements, just like any other group of people.
The initiative has broad support across the political spectrum in the committee and in Parliament and is a major plank of the Government's international policy. Do you monitor issues that may arise from Bush Administration decisions and may have an impact on the fresh talent initiative, or is the range of such issues...
Do you have any objective or subjective view that part of the reason for that could be that we are seeing the funding diverted to cross-cutting programmes that may, nonetheless, deliver a commensurate increase in outputs?
I apologise to the witnesses for being late. I was caught up in traffic, which may be an argument for relocating the Scottish Parliament somewhere north of the Forth road bridge, possibly in Dundee.
Of course, we will not need to use committee bills for that after 1 May. Members: "Hear, hear." I was just trying to lighten the debate a little there—Laughter.