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However, when we get together informally we avoid talking shop. We think it best for the independence of both our operations to avoid talking about the specifics of issues that we are dealing with.
I can forgive ITV for recycling programmes on ITV3 and ITV4, which show some of the best of its old drama programmes, because it is not trying to make an additional charge for them.
The basic plea that I have made from the beginning of the process is this: do not box us in. The people who are best able to assess the licensing situation in the locale are the people on the local licensing board.
If Fiona Hyslop has continuing concerns, it would probably be best for her to lodge amendments directly to the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill rather than to the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Bill.
I also congratulate the young people who have secured this prestigious award and wish them all the best in their continuing efforts to support the LGBT communities.
I have always taken the view that the Parliament is at its best when it acts on a cross-party basis and that is certainly the case with most decisions in this committee.
Because of the reasonably high degree of unnecessary duplication in the public sector in Scotland, there is scope for examining how best to harness technology and other methods of removing that duplication.