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Our first item of business concerns an application to establish a cross-party group on kidney disease. We are joined by Margaret Jamieson, the convener of the proposed group, who will make a brief statement in support of her application.
It is appropriate to indicate to committee members that we have had to go through this procedure because we wanted a short-lived group that would examine a specific issue. We have applied this late in the parliamentary calendar because we had to time our move appropriately.
We should support this application.
I agree. Given that we are currently undertaking a review of cross-party groups, we might want to think about promoting the idea of short-lived groups. That might be a productive innovation.
Do we agree to approve the application?