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Thank you very much. That was super.

Thank you all for joining us today and for your evidence. As with our first panel, we had a lot to get through, and I am glad that we got through it all in time, even with the little hiccups that we had at the beginning.

That concludes the public part of our meeting. We will allow our witnesses to leave and then we will move into private session to consider the final items on our agenda.

Thank you.

That makes it easy. Thank you very much.

The next item on our agenda is consideration of petition PE1747, which is about adequate funding to support children with additional support needs in all Scottish schools. The committee had previously agreed to consider the issues raised in the petition as part of our work programme. During a subsequent discussion, the committee agreed to undertake an inquiry into additional support for learning, and we published our inquiry report in May this year. The Scottish Government responded to that report in July, and the committee will be holding a debate this afternoon on that subject, the report and its recommendations.

As members have no further comments to make about the petition, and given the work that the committee has already undertaken in this area, does the committee agree to close the petition?

Members indicated agreement.

I was at the AI event last night in the Parliament. Were you there?

Can we have a quick response from one of the witnesses? I have my eye on the clock again—sorry. I see that both Barry Black and Professor Priestley want to come in. Please make it short and snappy

As convener, I have my eye on the clock. I know that you are a new member, but I am a stickler for time. Mr Adam, over to you now.

Thank you very much to our panel of witnesses for their evidence. That concludes the public part of our proceedings, and I suspend our meeting to allow witnesses to leave. The committee will then move into private session to consider its final agenda item.

Could you answer that question succinctly, if possible? I know that it is difficult to do that.

Thank you very much for that response. I also thank you for your evidence this morning. We have found it very informative. We will now suspend the meeting until 10.35 to allow our witness to leave and our panel of witnesses to come in. Thank you very much, Professor Muir.