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When I consider the number of constituents who have notified me—and, I am sure, other MSPs—of their concerns about the matter in the past week or so, I am disappointed by what I have heard in the chamber today.
The problem is that, at the local level, the advice does not seem to be followed in practices. MSPs' postbags are full of letters from patients who say that, if they lived three doors up, they would be in a different NHS board area and would be able to get a different drug.
That is its role and members should be aware where the boundaries lie.I omitted to welcome Euan Robson MSP, who is the member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire and the Deputy Minister for Parliament.
When I asked to speak in today's debate, I was unsurprised to learn that there was not a queue of MSPs who wanted to contribute. That suggests that members of the Parliament are just like the members of the public who did not attend the meetings that Mr Russell talked about.
Frankly, I have found many Opposition members' comments about the issues that confront us as elected MSPs in Scotland's first Parliament lacking in substance.