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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.
Sam Mitchell should be here, along with Ian Smart, John Freebairn, Tom Reilly and Lorence Sheach. Cathie Craigie, the local MSP, and Andrew Wilson MSP are also here.
We deliberately have members from all parties on the group and I hope that the group will be augmented. All MSPs are welcome. We want to be as open as possible and I hope that MSPs will encourage as much activity around tartan day as possible in the areas that they represent.
If I had gone to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body as a private individual MSP and said that I would like the meeting to be covered, that would have been allowed.
I, too, congratulate Mark Ruskell on securing this debate on reconnecting communities by rail. I hope that other MSPs will not mind a Glasgow MSP intruding on their territory.