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It is 23 years since the passing of the Scotland Act at Westminster, which led to the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh the following year.
And given recent events, it may now be time for reflection on how the Act is working in practice. Holyrood was designed as a unicameral legislature, a single body, with scrutiny and amendments to legislation being undertaken by what was supposed to be a powerful committee system.
Those of us who have been forced to sit through various committee sessions over the years have known for some time that this system is unfit for purpose. The problem was brought into sharp public focus this month with the high-profile appearance of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon before the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints. Thanks to partisan, soft-ball questioning by the majority SNP members and frankly, some political grandstanding by opposition representatives, the committee got nowhere, and the first minister was able to emerge virtually unscathed, having skilfully avoided any awkward pitfalls by claimed lapses of memory and in some cases obfuscation.