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You have around four minutes, please, Mr Mundell. 16:01 Through my own, albeit limited, life experience and my work as a constituency MSP, I am well aware that, for many people, hospital is not the best place to be.
We have spoken to people who have not been happy with where they have got to, so they have written to their MSP or MP, who has contacted us. We need to know.
Mr Stewart, you said that you are in listening mode, but I wonder whether you are hearing MSPs concerns about the role of Parliament if you decide to move forward.
You are absolutely right to consider those differences. You and I, and every MSP around this table, know very well that you cannot have a one-size-fits-all approach in Scotland.
Before I ask my next question, I declare an interest in terms of my former employment and as a Lothian MSP, on account of the lack of affordable social housing in Edinburgh, which is already a huge issue.
In my experience, the people who do the work know what is wrong. With all respect, professors and MSPs, who are not in the classrooms and schools, often do not know what is going on.
Paul McLennan spoke about the need for all MSPs to lead. Scotland can and must lead by example, by sharing our knowledge and expertise, and our successes and failures.