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Members of this Parliament, and indeed members of this committee, have considered the issue many times over the years. I commend the work done by MSPs from all parties to highlight this important matter.
I hear what you say, but you are talking about accountability between the Government and the regional boards whereas, as a Highlands and Islands MSP, I am talking about the accountability of a local college to its community.
We fully support the suggestion in Patricia Ferguson MSP’s proposed bill that there should be a timescale set so that the Lord Advocate has to take a decision on holding an inquiry.
I think that some of that information will be quite important in terms of convincing some of the people who are writing to me, you and all MSPs because they see the bill as unfair.
I am not a lawyer or a member of the judiciary; I might be an MSP but I am also a member of the public and I think that the cabinet secretary is absolutely right: the public should know exactly how the law works.