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I know that Christine Grahame quoted someone else, but I think that the job of MSPs is to filter such remarks. I think that that particular remark is a slur on the court service and I rebut it.
I know that the SAC values immensely the working relationships that it has established with the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Paisley. We should be very careful about MSPs from the south-west making an understandable rush to protect Auchincruive.
I know that that is implicit in the paragraph but, given that this is public guidance that MSPs might expect to be followed, we would not want to lead members to believe that, if they brought their amendments in just too late, their amendments would be accepted.
More important, the public should understand Scottish Water's obligation to them, so that they can ensure that Scottish Water meets its obligations regarding consultation and so that MSPs do not have to knock continually at Scottish Water's door to drag the information out—if members will excuse the pun—drip by drip.
The council also informed me that the McCrone settlement in the city will be underfunded by more than £4 million over the next three years because McCrone was based on pupil numbers rather than on Dundee's higher staffing levels.The local government settlement can be described in the Scottish Parliament as the "perfect platform" and yet be met with disappointment by individual councils, who tell their MSPs...
For example, evidence can be received orally from people who have communication difficulties and complaints do not have to be filtered through an MSP. In my view, which is shared by the commission, the suggested arrangements will promote openness and easy access.Making a complaint is intimidating.
I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, as I believe that I may be the MSP with the most experience of army life, having enjoyed 15 years' service in the Army, at home and abroad.
John Home Robertson, the local member of the Scottish Parliament, contacted the clerk to say that an East Lothian environmental group had approached him about the problem. That group wrote to him, other MSPs and the health board, and John Home Robertson has taken up the issue.
I did not intend to speak in the debate, but when I heard the Fife MSP talk about wheelie bins in such a denigrating fashion, I felt I had to rise and defend the honourable wheelie bin, which has brought many positive aspects to life in Fife.
The people who contributed to "Improving Debt Recovery in Scotland" are head and shoulders above people like me and the majority of other MSPs in this room—head and shoulders above.