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We have therefore listened to MSPs, who have reported to us from the areas that they know well. Following the debate in January, I wrote to MSPs individually, picking up the points raised in the debate.
Some of the health targets, if we follow the natural trend for certain illnesses, will be reached without doing anything and we might not know why things are changing.
The select committee on violence and marriage was followed by another on violence and the family, and on which Margaret Ewing served, because clearly the subject needed to be widened.
I will take a few more contributions and then I will come back to hard decisions. Funnily enough, I want to follow on from another point that John made.
I hope that members have had a chance to look at those and at the copy of the article that I mentioned earlier.Members might also be interested to know that the World Health Organisation's VISION 2020: The Right to Sight initiative has identified as one of its major priorities uncorrected refractive disorders.