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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 15th meeting in 2024 of the Education, Children and Young People Committee. We have apologies from Stephanie Callaghan.

Our first agenda item is evidence from two panels of witnesses on the Scottish Languages Bill at stage 1. I welcome our first panel. Thank you very much for joining us.

I ask our witnesses to introduce themselves and say which organisation they are representing. I will go round my screen; at the top left is Donald Macleod.

Joanna, I am sorry—

Ruth Maguire has a wee supplementary question.

To carry on with that thread, how should our public bodies be held accountable for the support and services that they might provide in relation to the Gaelic language? You spoke about care homes and arts centres. Is the panel content with the proposals that are in the bill to allow those things to happen?

Who would like to go first?

Throughout this morning’s session, you have spoken at length about the fact that, if it is to do something meaningful, the bill will require significant resource. You have made reference to that throughout your evidence. Thank you for that.

Thank you for that succinct response. That brings to a close our first evidence session of the morning. It has been very informative, and I thank all our witnesses for their time.

I suspend the meeting until 10:40, to allow for a change of witnesses.

Welcome back. We will now take evidence on the Scottish Languages Bill from Bòrd na Gàidhlig. I welcome everyone—thank you for joining us. Will you introduce yourselves?

Thank you. We will start with an opening statement from Ealasaid. I apologise for that pronunciation; I will get it right as we go on.

I move to questions from members. We will kick the second panel off with Pam Duncan-Glancy, again.