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I do not think that there is a gap between the SNAP report and the national strategy, which Mary Scanlon suggests. SNAP is an expert group; we accept its advice and recommendations, which are at the heart of the national strategy.
I would like the situation clarified. I thank Mary for raising that point. When I heard that definition, I had visions of a lawyer sitting in every accident and emergency room with a cash register.
They serve the purpose of the helpline to which Margaret Ewing referred. I will, of course, take up Mary Mulligan's invitation to visit the project in West Lothian to which she referred.
Such multiskilling is the way forward for the future.I will conclude my remarks, as I do not have much time remaining. I thank Mary Scanlon for giving way in my favour.
I invite the representatives of Scottish Natural Heritage—John Mackay, Mary Maclean and Mary Bryden—to give evidence on the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill.
Congratulations are due to the Greens for launching a roll-back of the media's disproportionate representation and the Executive's stereotyping—as we saw in Mary Mulligan's contribution—of young people as yobs and neds.