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Higher Education Bill Agenda item 3 is on the Sewel motion that will go before the Parliament on the Higher Education Bill. We have with us again Jim Wallace MSP, who will speak to the motion. I will speak more briefly this time.
It could also consider running an awareness campaign, perhaps through public advertising or MSP endorsement, on the role of bone marrow registers and the life-saving work that they do.
I will now open up the meeting to questions from committee members. Like most MSPs, I have been involved in children's health issues throughout Scotland and so I read your report with interest.
Rhona Brankin is to be warmly congratulated.I note that local MSPs were not allowed to sit on the committee, but that does not mean that we did not have views.
Members may recall that, at the beginning of the year, Richard Simpson and some other MSPs—perhaps including members of the committee—went up to Aberdeen.
Currently, tracking what is happening falls on the shoulders of MSPs, if they have an interest. As the Government in Scotland is giving legislation away, it should do the tracking and alert us to what is happening.
Although the paper's main audience will be members of the lead committee when that is appointed, it will perhaps interest other MSPs who have an interest in this subject.
Although the paper's main audience will be members of the lead committee when that is appointed, it will perhaps interest other MSPs who have an interest in this subject.
I am proud to represent Cumbernauld and Kilsyth in the first democratically elected Scottish Parliament. I am proud to be the first woman MSP to introduce a bill into the Parliament.
It is not always possible to get to grips with the detail of what an MSP proposes. That was the danger, rather than a private health danger that resulted from something that proper practices ought to be able to deal with.