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Thank you to all—[Inaudible.]

Dr Tammi, Maureen Finn has just said that the issue is not access but the one-to-one learning that people need. Should a catch-up programme for the Gypsy Traveller community be targeted more at that point rather than at overall access?

Leslie Drury wants to come in.

Dr Finn, do you have something to say about that? I believe that you highlighted the issue.

We have heard a lot today about racial discrimination and racism, which have no place in society, never mind the Gypsy Traveller community. Leslie Drury, does more need to be done to ensure that education and awareness raising happen at grass-roots level, perhaps with students and children in schools, so that they go home and talk about such matters? Would that allow us to root out any sort of racism against or racial tension with the Gypsy Traveller community?

Can you hear me okay now?

Davie Donaldson wants to come in.

You say that tensions have been high. Could anything more have been done to address the situation, and are there any examples of that?

Yes, it would—thank you, Pauline.

Good morning. I thank Jenny Miller and Pauline Nolan for coming to the meeting and for their opening statements, especially on international women’s day.

We have heard that the rates of domestic abuse and violence against women increased throughout the pandemic. Was that the case for disabled women, too? If so, were there specific impacts on them? If so, how could we have addressed that?