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I welcome to the meeting Marco Biagi, Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment, his officials and Drew Smith MSP. Before we move to consideration of the amendments, it will be helpful if I set out the procedure for stage 2 consideration.
We should note that every member who has spoken on these amendments—a number of South Scotland MSPs and the MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries—represents the Solway area, is very aware of the huge problems down there and supports what the minister is doing.
At the end of May, when I had been in the role of MSP for just a couple of weeks, I got calls from Glasgow solicitors who were quite upset about the savings.