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Four statutory instruments are before us today. Members should all have received an e-mail asking whether any clarification was needed. If there is no need for clarification, I shall ask the committee to agree that we have no comment to make on those instruments. Is that agreed?
It is agreed that the committee has no comment to make on the four Scottish statutory instruments.
We may have to filibuster on the statutory instruments.
Johann Lamont could ask one of her labyrinthine questions.
If Mr Marks is not here, we shall have to suspend the meeting.
Does anybody know why Frank McAveety does not have his specs on in the photograph in the standards in public life document? Perhaps that is part of his image remake.
You realise that this chit-chat will get me into trouble with the Presiding Officer. The official reporters are writing everything down.
Yes, they are terrible for that.
Colin puts me up to it before the meeting starts. I am completely innocent.
We should suspend the meeting.
Meeting suspended.
On resuming—