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Throughout the debate, we have heard statistics, particularly from Lothians MSPs on the tremendous employment that comes from financial services in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
The minister will know that I am a member of the Co-operative group of Labour MSPs. The co-operative movement worldwide has done much to improve trade in developing countries.
We need a bill and orders that deliver that.We accept all the points that MSPs have made. When we examine the detail, we will take the matter on board as a priority.
If we extrapolated that throughout the Parliament, we would arrive at a total of 43 MSPs. The situation regarding Scottish Water falls far short of utopian.
I will give the reason for that. Many Labour MSPs have privately spoken to me about the subject and one who was in social work before she became an MSP told me that she saw many kids who went to school with nothing in their belly in the morning.
A meeting took place this week that included officials from sportscotland and the local MSP, Margaret Smith, and I hope that some progress will be made from those deliberations.
It is not simply a case of a community council, councillor, or even an MSP writing to a head teacher to say, "Your kids are chucking litter in the street."
If the scheme went so far, it would damage the landscape permanently. As a South of Scotland MSP, I have heard a lot about the Minch moor campaign, so I was staggered to see on the petition only eight names from the several hundred residents.