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I warn members that the next couple of meetings could be fairly lengthy. The alternative is to have extra meetings, which no members will be keen on in April.
Professor Arthur Midwinter will not be able to join us for agenda item 4 until 11 o'clock. The last wee bit of extra information is that Parliament's official photographer will join us today to add to the committee's pictorial database.
If committee members have any further points or wish to provide extra information, it would be helpful if they could e-mail the clerks as soon as possible before 19 July.
The unit cost of the current collection system is low, so money is going towards supporting students—as is the intention—and not towards extra layers of bureaucracy. The minister and others have at various times said that it is likely that the current threshold will be reviewed.
I made the suggestion that only some of us might want to go along simply because I thought that others might take the opportunity not to have an extra meeting. In practice, anybody from the committee who wants to attend should be able to do so.