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I appreciate that that was the mood music but our opening speakers appear to have used up the extra time that we had in hand. Members will all have to adhere pretty closely to their six minutes, please.15:29 I declare an interest: I am an elected member of North Lanarkshire Council.
This debate is about a PBR that adds £23 million extra to and removes nothing from the Scottish Government's budget of more than £30 billion for next year.
Some of those authorities also employ wardens, and some that have not contributed funding for extra police officers have decided to put their money into having extra wardens instead.
He is not here to listen to it, but we all know the truth: there is not one penny extra to deliver it. Indeed, the SNP COSLA education spokesperson had not a clue how much it would cost.
Have you seriously considered—as Stephen Pathirana mentioned—using that as a very easy system and having an extra box on the form, rather than sending out extra forms across Scotland?