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Let us test this and see: if the committees want to generate legislation and to allocate their time in a different way, l encourage them to do so. In the course of those exchanges, David McCrone tried to catch my eye.
Those issues are very relevant to the wider debate on looked-after children, and we shall return to them.The biggest sin of omission in the bill, however, is the failure to give a voice to the children who are involved in the adoption process.
We are greatly concerned that, whether through misconception or whatever, there might be an attempt to attribute the sins of a previous march to the Orange order.
The Executive's shameful position, whereby it has cowered behind the Westminster Government and constantly cried that such powers are reserved, can be aptly summed up by Abraham Lincoln's phrase:"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
The evidence for where the comfort may lie in our avoiding the sins of the past haunting us in the future is in the numbers that Stuart Smith and David Bolton are producing.
We know that the term antisocial behaviour covers a multitude of sins. It covers everything from intimidation to playing loud music and from lack of respect for the physical environment through to violence and abusive behaviour.
We are instructed in chapter 5, verse 2 of the holy Qur'an,"help one another in righteousness and piety, but do not help one another in sin and injustice."We are also guided by our prophet Mohammed—peace be upon him—through his tradition.
I welcome Donald MacInnes, who is the chief executive of Scotland Europa, and Alan—with one L—Wilson, who is the chief executive of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry.