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The impression has perhaps been given that the independent body would be a large, overarching, expensive, new type of quango. That is not necessarily what we envisaged, but we did not get into the detail of what the independent body should be.
In fact, I have always thought it passing strange that although one gets penalised in the academic world for copying people, one gets penalised in the business world for not copying people when they have good ideas.
In the interests of people who want to get ahead and apply new technologies to their properties, I am keen for those issues to be considered at stage 2.
In his evidence, Michael Hirst indicated that it was not at all uncommon for business travellers to find that they missed their plane because they could not get a place in a car park. This committee does not exist just to look after business people, but, if that is a problem, it is one that we would all wish to tackle.
Jackie Baillie's suggestion that we write to the Standards Commission to get the matter clarified might be the best way for us to get that question answered.
I have put that on the agenda so that we can see what response we get from the Executive.Now that I have given that update, do members want to follow up any issues in detail?