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Although not all six petitioners can have three minutes to address the committee, your official spokesperson has three minutes to do so. I will then open up the meeting for questions, which any of you can answer.
That is good news.Finally, I thank all the MSPs, including Ken Macintosh, Dennis Canavan, Brian Adam, David Davidson, Margaret Smith and John Young, who came along to the meetings that we had with SHOC throughout the passage of the bill.
The minister's statement contains much to welcome. The settlement will never meet the full aspirations of local government—if I were still a local government councillor, I do not doubt that I would criticise it for not doing so—but it will go a long way towards improving the situation for many local authorities.
It is important that, in future, we have in place accessibility strategies that aim to ensure that school staff and the facilities and services that they provide are suitable and meet the needs of that range of pupils.With this piece of legislation, we are asking people to build on and develop the good practice that is already happening throughout Scotland....