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I cannot believe that the Tories have been naive enough to embrace the motion and thus draw attention to their appalling record. I exhort all MSPs of intelligence, perception and sense to vote for the Scottish National Party's amendment.
The issue has been raised with me as an MSP. I will put it in stronger terms; it has been suggested—it is the committee's overall impression—that there are more and more pressures, and that we are reaching breaking point.
I know that there is concern that ordinary people going about their everyday lives cannot afford air transport and that the planes are always filled with MSPs and Highland Council or Highland Health Board officials.
Robert Kilgour is making the point that we do not accept that the scheme will be self-financing. Our job is to lobby MSPs and ministers to try to get them to rethink the scheme.
Most tenants would say that they are opposed in principle to the right to buy, but the reality is that it may be a cheaper option.Over the next few weeks, many of the federations in Scotland will have meetings with their MSPs and will put forward their views in various forms.