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I want to ask about the plans for communicating with parents. As a constituency MSP, I have been contacted over the past year or two by several people who have genuine concerns, and by others who couched their comments in wider concerns about the SNP Government on a range of issues.
I can only apologise to many applicants who have not had good experiences of the SRDP in terms of the bureaucracy. As I have explained to MSPs many times, a large part of that is down to the European hoops that we have to jump through.
Des Browne may have one view, but many Labour back benchers at Westminster were lobbying with another view. Some Labour MSPs, too, were lobbying with that other view.
I am going to stop you— I have one last question on a different matter. Before becoming an MSP, I was involved for numerous years with an NHS primary care complaints committee.
If we believe in devolution, as I do and as I thought most MSPs did—we even heard Graham Simpson say that most MSPs did—we have to be judged by our actions.
They are easily met and there is a process of discussion and debate for those who cannot meet them. All MSPs know that we get that from constituents all the time, and that is where we would be.