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It is about the balance between local and national—if I had a pound for every time an MSP has asked me to intervene to knock heads together or to tell a chair to get a particular board issue sorted, I would be a very rich woman indeed.
I want to talk about education policies that I think are important in addressing child poverty, and I will start with the early years. To come back to what some SNP MSPs are asking for, the evidence is important.
It means 15 quid a month in the pockets of people on salaries like ours—people like MSPs and cabinet secretaries, for whom the extra money will make no difference at all to the quality of our lives.
There seems to be a loophole in that those who approach us because they have no heating at all are given standalone heaters, which are expensive to run. All MSPs have probably encountered that problem.
There is scope for expansion in those areas and such a move would do more to tackle child poverty.It is clear from this morning's evidence and indeed previous evidence that pupils higher than P3 who have been identified as living in poverty will be reached neither by the P1 to P3 policy nor by the extension of eligibility to the children of parents on maximum working families tax credit.As a Mid Scotland and Fife MSP...
If anyone has questions, they can ask me or Marlyn Glen, who was on the visit, too.On 19 March 2008, two members of the Equal Opportunities Committee, Marlyn Glen MSP and Bill Kidd MSP, visited the new Donaldson's school.
I have just a brief follow-up question, convener, as that was pretty comprehensive. As MSPs, we receive regular reports from Transport Focus on the view of the travelling public and the non-travelling public.