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Amendment 224 would prevent a JP or stipendiary magistrate from exercising the signing functions of office if they were an MSP, an MP or a member of the House of Lords.
It is interesting to note that we have heard not a single word in the debate about the disabled. As MSPs, we featherbed ourselves. If an MSP is, or becomes, disabled, support is provided for as long as that MSP is a member of the Parliament.
I was taken by Duncan McNeil's speech and pleased that he is delighted by the partnership agreement, as are other Labour MSPs. I can assure him that Liberal Democrat MSPs are equally delighted with it.
I will do so first by thanking all my colleagues on the Communities Committee, all the MSPs who are not on the committee but who got involved in the process, and the clerks and other officials.
I am asking you to raise the matter with the minister by writing to him in your capacity as an MSP. That way, you will be able to include all the issues involved.
When he does, will he reinforce the position that all members who have spoken in the debate have taken and copy the Official Report to the board's members so that they can see MSPs' strength of feeling on this matter?