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I will bring in Inge Birnie—sorry; I mean Sylvia Warnecke. It is very confusing when I have an earphone in.

I am sorry, Lydia, but I am going to have to move on to Dr Birnie, in the interests of time.

No, no, that was very helpful. You gave useful examples, which we always like to get.

Joan, do you want to come in?

We will move straight to questions from members. Liam Kerr will kick off.

Who would like to take that? If you are not in a position to answer, you can just say so. That is fine.

We come to questions from Willie Rennie.

Thank you for allowing that, Mr Rennie.

My next question follows on from the theme of standards. Some of the respondents were unclear about how public bodies’ compliance and accountability processes would work in practice with the legislation and any sanctions that they might face. Comunn na Gàidhlig—I hope that my pronunciation is right—questioned whether a Government agency would be critical of the Scottish Government in meeting those aims. How might the legislation address some of those points?

Perhaps I did not mean reporting. I am more interested in the sanctions that will be applied if people are not fulfilling their obligations.