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I take this opportunity to give the committee's best wishes to Mike Rumbles. He was on the committee for a very long time and was always a very dynamic committee member.
Would that not throw all the balls back up in the air? Yes. That is a fair point. We always knew that the Kerley report would have an impact on the leadership advisory panel.
For example, he might increase the numbers of sheep or do other things to the grouse moor that would cause the grouse to leave or to die. Therefore, the gamekeeper's job would be in jeopardy.
From what our induction paper says, we can confidently expect that eight bills will come to this committee. As you pointed out, the challenge is at what point those bills will come to the committee.
With respect to Michael McMahon—I know that he supports the change—the best way to get change is for people in this chamber to agree that it is needed, rather than for them to make political points, which will get us no further.
We totally and definitely oppose them. As someone pointed out before, the ballot would not be in the best interests of the tenants of Glasgow or our members.