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It would be as well for me to indicate that I shall listen to the minister’s response to Jim Hume’s amendment before concluding how, as an individual MSP, I will treat it when it comes before Parliament at stage 3.
Members have seen the briefing paper and the response from Patrick Harvie MSP. Do members have any comments? I welcome the response from the member in charge of the bill in relation to the phrase “best endeavours”, which the committee previously commented on.
The committee is invited to agree the questions that it wishes to raise with the member in charge, Patrick Harvie MSP, on the delegated powers in the bill.
A77 (Upgrade) (PE1657) The next petitions for consideration are PE1610, by Matt Halliday, and PE1657, by Donald McHarrie, on behalf of the A77 Action Group. I welcome Finlay Carson MSP to the committee for this discussion.
Cross-party Group Agenda item 2 is for the committee to take evidence on the proposed cross-party group on tackling Islamophobia. I welcome Anas Sarwar MSP, who is the convener of the proposed group, and I invite him to make a statement.
I must declare an interest. As well as being the MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, which contains the bulk of the A75, I have spent the past 49 years living two or three metres away from it, so I have seen the increase in the traffic over the years.