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When you talk about crofting, it is really a son or a wife helping on the croft. Only the registered crofter, if he is a tenant—this has been the case since 1886— That does not make it right.
First, I thank the committee for taking the time to consider my petition. I am a mother of two children—my son is six and my daughter is two. When my son started primary school last August, I became concerned about home-to-school transport.
In the next few weeks, I will do mock interviews with pupils in secondary 4 in some of the local schools—one of them will probably be my son, which might be a bit embarrassing for him, but that is okay.
However, since then, over 4,000 people have died in that emergency—there were 1,051 deaths last year alone. Those are sons, daughters, brothers and sisters whose lives and potential have been extinguished far too soon.
There is the example of the man who went to court to attend the trial of someone accused of murdering his son, only to find that he had to sit just a few feet away from the accused person.