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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.
Scottish ParliamentSocial Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector CommitteeWednesday 26 January 2000(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 10:03 Welcome to the meeting and to the glamorous venue.
It summarises areas in which the committee expressed an interest in the past and during the visit to Brussels, when some interesting presentations were made to us.
We want—in addition to a formal meeting of the committee—to carry out some fact-finding visits in Dalry. Perhaps the best way to do that, given that Dalry is a good two-hour drive from Edinburgh, would be to go to Dalry on Monday and carry out the fact-finding visits in the afternoon and early evening.
This does not affect the right of any Member representing a constituency or area to raise a matter on behalf of a constituent. School visits Where schools visit the Parliament, constituency Members should be invited to attend as a matter of course.
I was driving at whether the post would be a new function requiring new personnel and new costs or whether similar work is being done just now, although not as comprehensively.
Committees have sometimes consulted at stage 2, but the rule should be that they must consult if significant new proposals are made or if, even though the proposal is not new, the mechanism for achieving it is new.