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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.
Secondly, there does not seem to be any power to amend the sum of £5,000 in new section 20E(1)(b) of the 1990 act, yet section 38(1A)(b) provides for a specific power to amend the same sum specified in new section 55(1)(bc) of the 1980 act.
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.