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We are not like ministers or civil servants, councillors or council officials, or purchasing officials for health boards or all sorts of other organisations.
That a decision has not been taken on that matter by now is unacceptable and I hope that members of the corporate body who hear the debate or read the Official Report of it will take on board members' views on that matter.I am sure that this will not be the final word on question time timings or question time procedures.
We have had regular meetings with Home Office officials and we discussed the policy proposals that we put to our draftsmen and the drafts of the bill that we received from them.
If a member wants to oppose an entire section, it would be competent to lodge a manuscript amendment, but it is up to me as convener to decide whether to accept it.Only MSPs are able to speak during a stage 2 debate. Executive officials are here to support the minister, but cannot speak themselves.
Some of the information that comes to the bureau is informed by conversations between officials. If the committee clerks are happy with a proposed timetable, that view is fed into the bureau as a suggestion.
Perhaps we can leave that question on the table and ask our clerks to talk to your officials to explore that. With respect, I suspect that there are two issues there with regard to some of the targets and objectives.
From fairly recent discussions that I have had with senior banking officials, police officers, local councillors and council officials, it is clear that we do not have the resources or the law to expel those predators and stop their activities.