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However, I do not share your view that councillors are the same as MSPs and MPs. COSLA's survey found that only 26 per cent of councillors considered themselves to be full time.
If we prevent one family from having to visit a grave and another family from having to go to Barlinnie or Polmont for the next 10 years to visit their teenage son, the bill will have been a success.
We can see the benefits that have come since the Parliament was established. New stations have been opened and new routes have been opened or are planned.
We are likely to receive requests to visit numerous sites, so if members agree, I am happy to agree the final site-visit timetable and agenda on behalf of the committee.
Much of the evidence that we have taken has been based on rural issues, and we have visited rural areas—I visited the Western Isles—as part of the lead-up to the inquiry.