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I urge members to back the Conservative motion. 16:32 I remind members that I am a board member of Moving On Inverclyde, which is a local addiction service. Not one MSP wants the drugs crisis to continue.
Do you think that third sector organisations feel that they are always on the outside looking in? My experience as an MSP—and as a local councillor, which I was for many years—is that we always turn to the third sector in times of need and particularly during times of emergency, as is the case currently.
As a committee, we are trying to focus on the Scottish Government’s budget and what MSPs can do. I want to go back to a point about the role of benefits and the social security system in the short term and the medium term that Bill Scott made in his opening statement and which John Dickie picked up, and I want to reflect on two issues.
I note an interest, which is that I am an MSP for Highlands and Islands. All the council representatives taking part today represent councils that are in my region.
As far as I am concerned, as someone who represents a rural area, there are no consequences for the projects that I, as a local MSP, am fighting for—I usually lobby myself, which does not work very well.