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  The Chairperson: We will now move to the Charities Bill report. The Department advised us yesterday that it is minded to propose an amendment to clause 3, which relates to insolvency. It is considering doing that at Consideration Stage. Andrea Watson from the Department is here. I will set the scene. The Committee agreed its report last week and is here to sign off on it this morning. We were then advised that the Department identified a potential difficulty and may propose an amendment at a later stage. As a Committee, we cannot reopen this now, because we have nothing to reopen it with. We are not aware of the issue and we are not aware of the amendment the Department is likely to propose, but we look forward to hearing from Andrea. Good morning.
  Ms Andrea Watson (Department for Social Development): Good morning. Thank you, Chair and Committee members for the opportunity to bring to your attention to a possible amendment to the Charities Bill in addition to the amendment to clause 9, which was agreed to last week by the Committee.
  The Chairperson: OK, Andrea, thank you for that. Does anybody need to ask anything on that? If not, are members content?