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Unfortunately, few people speak Latin, the language that I probably learned best at school, which gives members some idea of what education was like in my day.
For Mr Gallie to talk in the media, as he did some weeks ago, of hundreds of villains walking free or, as he did this morning, of thousands of villains walking free, is disingenuous hyperbole at best. I will now consider the Executive's role.
Members may wish to pick me up on several points. I am sure that we will try our best. You talked about the possibility of our wanting to adopt the maxim that all property is theft.
Would it be appropriate to have one of them along? It is quite possible that the best academic with pest control knowledge and experience is with the Game Conservancy Trust, which should be represented at the evidence session.
In section 4 of your paper, you have outlined options for extension. Which do you think is the best option? Ideally, we want all schoolchildren to have free school meals, but that is probably not very viable financially.
No, I believe that it will roll forward over a number of years. We will budget for that as best we can. Given the nature of these projects, we will all—including members of this committee, I am sure—want to keep in touch with developments, because they could affect quite significantly the figures that we are looking at.
We have been delivering training based on that publication as best we can. We have provided training to organisations such as the Scottish Rugby Union, the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church, to help them to develop their own child protection policies, including recruitment and selection procedures and so on.