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I will pick up a few of the points that you made. The board has discussed many of those points. I will start with your final point about committee membership changing quickly.
I am glad that you mentioned the good practice that is going on, especially around participatory budgeting, which I know has benefited many constituencies, including my own.
If the service had not done that work, the system might have become overwhelmed, so it would have taken many years to hear cases, and there would have been all the human cost that that situation brings.
Does it fulfil their right to access without, as I have said, making them jump through too many hoops? Thank you. As members have no more questions, I thank the witnesses for their evidence and their time this morning.
I hope that they do that because, in many respects, there is no reason to find things difficult and we will make progress as long as there is respect for the devolution settlement.
Experiences from other jurisdictions Many of the responses spoke about the roll out of similar legislation in other jurisdictions, and the perception that the promised support has not been delivered there.