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The age-based laws that allow for 17-year-olds to live independently, vote, work and marry reflect the extent of self-determination that can exist at 16 years of age and beyond.
Like some other members of the committee, a great deal of my constituency is rural: 15 per cent of my constituents live in Moray, a level 1 area, and the other 85 per cent live in Aberdeenshire, which is a level 3 area.
They simply react to what they see on the national news and in the media. Many elderly folk live alone and have no family, so they have to rely on our system.
They want to know what will change their lives, so if there was more of that—“The vision of the plan is X”—we could probably get more buy-in from communities.