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We have received apologies from Tavish Scott MSP. The first item on our agenda is an evidence session with two panels of witnesses as part of the committee’s arts funding inquiry.
If I talk to farmers or people who are concerned about neonicotinoids in my constituency, I tell them that they can raise issues with me and I can make representations on them as a constituency MSP—as Rachael Hamilton can. However, if we go down the route that the UK Government is taking, that will not be possible.
The point of putting a bill through Parliament is that it gets proper scrutiny and that MSPs are able to amend what the Government is bringing forward in the bill.
Before posing my question, I express my support, as an MSP for West Scotland, for the many local jobs that Prestwick airport creates across the west of Scotland and particularly in Ayrshire.
Skype for Business is great, but when an MSP is meeting bigger groups in their constituency office or trying to meet MSPs elsewhere—for example, in the Highlands—what facilities might there be to facilitate videoconferencing?
We all know that, according to the members’ code of conduct, it is unacceptable for an individual MSP to call out another individual MSP, but Christina McKelvie has just repeated the charge that there was a—Interruption.