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I welcome the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs, Michael Russell MSP. He is joined by David Barnes, deputy director, EU exit strategy and negotiations in the Scottish Government.
That is one reason why my preference is for option 3, rather than one of the more simplistic alternatives. This week, MSPs were emailed by Energy Action Scotland offering a basket of potential amendments.
John, very rudely I am going to stop you there. As an MSP attending the meeting just for this evidence session, you did not get the committee papers and therefore will not know that your specific questions are coming up later.
I want to move on to general practitioner services, because one of the issues that has, over the two years since I was elected as an MSP for Lothian, been what can only be described as a crisis within general practice.
We have received one apology. Unfortunately, Kenneth Gibson MSP is unable to come to the meeting, but I am delighted to say that David Torrance MSP is here as a substitute member in his place.
Danielle Mason said that there is potential to lighten teachers’ workload. As MSPs, we hear a lot of about the issue of teacher workload in our local schools, so I hope that the proposed reforms will provide an opportunity to lessen that workload.
For the record, the two procedures—affirmative and negative—allow for different levels of scrutiny by MSPs. It is in the Government’s gift to decide which procedure to use.