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We should request a debate, get the Government's response and put all the facts before Parliament so that it can reach its own view. After all, other MSPs have as much of an interest in this issue as anyone around this table.
I will cover just a few points. One privilege of an MSP’s job is giving school pupils or students who take a keen interest in politics the chance to experience work in a parliamentary office.
I am staggered by the fact that the first engagement between the coalition Government and MSPs about the issue was with MSPs who were elected to the Westminster Parliament.
Not an end: a means to greater ends.”Perhaps the feigned outrage of the MSPs from the no camp is because they know that next Tuesday marks a significant milestone in Scotland’s journey to those greater ends: an independent Parliament with the powers to build a better—Interruption.
They certainly do not seem to be in this neck of the woods.Another issue of some concern is regional state aid, which I was pleased to read about, given all the lobbying of this committee and other MSPs about the regional state aid rules.