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Are those questions aimed at anyone in particular, Pam?

Fulton, will you direct the question? Otherwise, broadcasting does not know where to direct the camera.

It would be good to move on. If Suzanne has something in particular to say, I am sure that she will find a point at which to get back in.

Thank you.

If they are on the same area, yes. I then have a couple of other folk to bring in.

Agenda item 2 is an evidence session on the lives of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland. I refer members to papers 1 and 2. I welcome our witnesses to the meeting. Suzanne Munday is Gypsy/Traveller programme manager at the Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project, Dr Lynne Tammi is from AyeRight, Dr Maureen Finn is from the Scottish Traveller Education Programme, Leslie Drury is national co-ordinator at Article 12 in Scotland, and Davie Donaldson is from Progress in Dialogue.

Thank you all for attending to give evidence today. You are all very welcome. When you wish to answer a question, please indicate that by typing the letter R in the chat box. I will do my best to bring you in, and my clerks will keep an eye on that to make sure that we are not missing anybody.

To start off, I ask each of our witnesses to make a short opening statement, starting with Suzanne Munday.

Good morning and welcome to the ninth meeting in 2022 of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. Under agenda item 1, does the committee agree to take item 3, which is consideration of the evidence that we will hear today, in private?

Members indicated agreement.

We will go to Davie first, as he mentioned the programme in his opening summary.

Thank you for sharing that, Lynne. That is really helpful. As I think that Pam Duncan-Glancy said, the committee is going to look at this subject in its future work, but I know that other processes are afoot as well.

Thank you all so much for your evidence, which has been very helpful. I think that there is a big range of subjects that the committee will want to look at again, and we may come back to you on them. I said at the start that we are determined to get out of the Parliament and our offices—or our virtual offices—and meet the community directly. We might come back to you to help to facilitate some of that engagement, where we will be able to hear directly from members of the community. Thank you again.

That brings the public part of our meeting to a close. We will move into private session for the final items on our agenda.

Pam Duncan-Glancy would like to ask a wee supplementary question.